b'The Environmental Protection Act 1990 contains several income-generating powers, including section 8 (noteamendments pending) which allows enforcing authorities to charge such fees and charges as may be prescribed from time to time by a scheme devised in accordance with sub-section (2) by the Secretary of State. The fees are in relation to authorisation for the carrying on a prescribed process as defined under the Act. Section 20 (noteamendments pending) requires an enforcing authority to keep a public register of information containing, amongst other things, authorisation under the Act and to afford members of the public facilities for obtaining copies of entries on payment of reasonable charges. Note that sections 8 and 20 will be repealed if Schedule 3 of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 comes into force. Waste 16.6 The Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989 requires local authorities to register persons as carriers of controlled waste. Regulations under section 2 of this Act provides that the provision by a regulation authority to a registered carrier of such copies of certificates of registration as are provided in addition to the certificate provided under the Act, is to be made subject to the payment of a charge imposed under regulations. The Controlled Waste (Registration of Carriers and Seizure and Vehicles) Regulations 1991 (SI 1991/1624) are the relevant regulations (as amended by SI 1998/605, SI 2006/937, SI 2007/3538, SI 2011/600, SI 2011/988 and SSI 2012/360). Regulation 3(1)(b) allows an authority to levy a reasonable fee for the provision of copies of entries in its register of carriers of controlled waste. Regulation 4(9) prescribes a set of fees which an authority levies for the consideration of applications for registration and renewals of registration. Regulation 9(1) allows an authority to levy a reasonable charge for the provision of copies of certificates of registration. Section 45 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 deals with the collection of controlled waste by a waste collection authority. Under this section no charge can be made for the collection of household waste, except in cases prescribed in regulations made by the Secretary of State, and in any of those cases: (a)the duty to arrange for the collection of the waste shall not arise until a person who controls the waste requests the authority to collect it; and (b)the authority may recover a reasonable charge for the collection of the waste from the person who made the request. Fees for the collection of garden waste, for example, are regulated by the Controlled Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/811), as amended. Under section 45(4) a person at whose request waste other than household waste is collected shall be liable to pay a reasonable charge for the collection and disposal of the waste to the authority which arranged for its collection and it is the duty of the authority to recover the charge unless, in the case of a charge in respect of commercial waste, the authority considers it inappropriate to do so. Under section 45(5) it is the duty of each waste collection authority: (a)to make such arrangements for the emptying, without charge, of privies serving one or more private dwelling in its area as the authority considers appropriate; and 159'