{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deposit-scheme-for-drinks-containers-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deposit-scheme-for-drinks-containers-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-47.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/103",
  "legislation_title": "The Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deposit-scheme-for-drinks-containers-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Form of return amount",
  "text": "(1) A scheme collector must pay the total return amount for the returnable items that it accepts from a person using one or more of the following means, unless the person elects for that amount to be paid to a charity under regulation 48—\n(a) cash in sterling;\n(b) a payment to a debit or credit card;\n(c) a refund voucher.\n(2) But if the scheme collector is a scheme retailer (other than a scheme retailer who does not accept cash), the scheme collector must—\n(a) offer to pay the total return amount in the form of money or a refund voucher to the person returning the returnable items (the “returner”), and\n(b) if the returner accepts the offer, pay the total return amount in the form of money or a refund voucher.\n(3) A refund voucher—\n(a) may be provided in either a physical or electronic format, but\n(b) must be provided in a physical format, if requested by the returner.\n(4) In this regulation—\n“refund voucher” (“taleb ad-daliad”) means a voucher, token or similar item which is capable of being exchanged immediately either with the scheme collector or another person, for a sum of money, or a payment to a debit or credit card, equal to the relevant total return amount—\n(a) for goods or services, or\n(b) singly or together with any other refund vouchers or other vouchers or similar items;\n“total return amount” (“swm dychwelyd cyfan”) means the aggregate of the return amount payable for each returnable item presented by the returner and accepted by the scheme collector.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/103/regulation/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:52.499728+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."
}