{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-18",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111062876",
  "legislation_title": "The Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Amendment Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Application for registration of a groceries retailer as return point operator",
  "text": "After regulation 20 (return points) insert—\n“Application for registration of a groceries retailer as return point operator\n20ZA. (1) An application for registration of a groceries retailer as a return point operator must be made to the scheme administrator—\n(a) before 1 October 2027, or\n(b) where the person is not a groceries retailer at that date, within 28 days of a person becoming a groceries retailer.\n(2) An application for registration must—\n(a) be made in writing,\n(b) contain the information set out in schedule 1A, and\n(c) include any information as may be reasonably requested by the scheme administrator.\n(3) Where the application is granted, the return point operator will be treated as registered from the date specified by the scheme administrator under article 27(1)(b) (registration of the groceries retailer as a return point operator) of the Designation Order 2025.\n(4) A groceries retailer which is registered as a return point operator must—\n(a) comply with the obligations in regulation 20, and\n(b) notify the scheme administrator of any material change in the information provided in accordance with paragraph (2) within 28 days of the date of the change.\nEffect of making an application for a return point exemption: applications ongoing at 1st October 2027\n20ZB. (1) This regulation applies where—\n(a) a groceries retailer applies for an exemption under regulation 20ZA before 1st October 2027, and\n(b) the scheme administrator has not made a decision on that application by the end of 30th September 2027.\n(2) Irrespective of the final outcome of the exemption application, the groceries retailer is not required to operate a return point in respect of the premises specified in the exemption application during the period—\n(a) beginning with 1st October 2027, and\n(b) ending—\n(i) if the return point exemption is granted, immediately before the exemption takes effect,\n(ii) if the return point exemption is refused and the groceries retailer has asked the scheme administrator to review its decision under article 20 (internal review of decisions made by the scheme administrator) of the Designation Order 2025, at the end of the period during which the review is carried out,\n(iii) if the return point exemption is refused and the groceries retailer has not asked the scheme administrator to review its decision under article 20 of the Designation Order 2025, at the end of the period within which the groceries retailer could have asked the scheme administrator to review its decision under article 20 of the Designation Order 2025.\nEffect of making an application for a return point exemption: person becoming a groceries retailer on or after 1st October 2027\n20ZC. (1) This regulation applies where a person who becomes a groceries retailer on or after 1st October 2027 applies for an exemption under regulation 20ZA.\n(2) The groceries retailer is not required to operate a return point in respect of the premises specified in the exemption application during the period—\n(a) beginning with the day on which the application is received by the scheme administrator, and\n(b) ending—\n(i) if the return point exemption is granted, immediately before the exemption takes effect,\n(ii) if the return point exemption is refused and the groceries retailer has asked the scheme administrator to review its decision under article 20 of the Designation Order 2025, at the end of the period during which the review is carried out,\n(iii) if the return point exemption is refused and the groceries retailer has not asked the scheme administrator to review its decision under article 20 of the Designation Order 2025, at the end of the period within which the groceries retailer could have asked the scheme administrator to review its decision under article 20 of the Designation Order 2025.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111062876/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:28:39.235154+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."
}