{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2022/9780111052679",
  "legislation_title": "The Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Amendment Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-amendment-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Takeback services",
  "text": "In regulation 21 (takeback services)—\n(a) in paragraph (2), for “paragraph (3)” substitute “paragraphs (3) and (3A)”,\n(b) after paragraph (3), insert—\n“(3A) If a single proposed return by a consumer contains a number of items of scheme packaging disproportionately greater than the number of scheme articles that a retailer providing a takeback service sells on average as part of a single transaction, that retailer may refuse to provide a takeback service to the consumer for that proposed return.”,\n(c) in paragraph (5)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (c), omit “or”,\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (d), insert—\n“, or\n(e) is part of a return where the retailer had refused to provide a takeback service under paragraph (3A).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2022/9780111052679/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:30:32.895687+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."
}