{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-regulations-2020/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-regulations-2020/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2020/154",
  "legislation_title": "The Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Exemptions for return points",
  "text": "A groceries retailer may apply to the scheme administrator for an exemption from operating a return point in respect of a retail premises either—\n(a) on proximity grounds, if it is made on the grounds that there is one or more alternative return points located within reasonable proximity to those retail premises, or\n(b) on premises grounds, if it is made on the grounds that the location, layout, size, design, or construction of those retail premises does not permit, or cannot reasonably be altered to permit, the operation of a return point on those premises.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 substituted (20.6.2025) by The Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/188), regs. 1, 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 in force at 1.1.2021, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/154/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:02:17.139358+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."
}