{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-neighbourhoods-and-environment-act-2005/section-99",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-neighbourhoods-and-environment-act-2005/section-99.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/16",
  "legislation_title": "Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-neighbourhoods-and-environment-act-2005",
  "path": "section/99",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "99",
  "heading": "Abandoned shopping and luggage trolleys",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 4 to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 3(2) (retention, return and disposal of trolleys: notice to owner) for “seized or removed” substitute “ seized and removed ”.\n(3) After paragraph 3 insert—\n“\n3A (1) This paragraph applies where the local authority is entitled to sell or otherwise dispose of a shopping or luggage trolley in accordance with paragraph 3(1)(b).\n(2) If it appears to the authority that a particular person is the owner of the trolley, the authority may charge him a sum in respect of the removal, storage and disposal of the trolley.\n(3) The charge is payable to the authority on demand.\n(4) The sum payable as a charge under this paragraph is recoverable by the authority as a debt due to it.\n(5) In proceedings against a person under sub-paragraph (4) for enforcement of a charge, it is a defence for the person to prove that he was not the owner of the trolley to which the charge relates at the time it was removed.”\n(4) In paragraph 4 (charges)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(i) for the words from “in fixing” to “sufficient” substitute “ in fixing the charges to be paid under this Schedule, shall secure that the charges so payable are such as are sufficient ”, and\n(ii) for “such trolleys” substitute “ shopping or luggage trolleys ”, and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2), after “paragraph 3” insert “ or 3A ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 99 in force at 6.4.2006 for E. by S.I. 2006/795, art. 2(3), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 99 in force at 27.10.2006 for W. by S.I. 2006/2797, art. 2(r)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/16/section/99",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:57.815752+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}