{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Obligations relating to charging deposits and marketing, offering for sale or selling articles",
  "text": "In regulation 5 (obligations relating to charging deposits and marketing, offering for sale or selling articles)—\n(a) omit paragraph (1),\n(b) in paragraph (3), for “for “1 October 2025” substitute “1 October 2027”,\n(c) in paragraph (3A), for “1 October 2025” substitute “1 October 2027”,\n(d) before paragraph (4) insert—\n“(3B) Any person who markets, offers for sale or sells a scheme article in Scotland must ensure that the scheme article carries—\n(a) the scheme logo, and\n(b) the scheme return code,\nregardless of whether the scheme article is, or is intended to be, marketed, offered for sale or sold to a consumer in a scheme multipack.\n(3C) Any person who markets, offers for sale or sells a scheme article in Scotland as part of a scheme multipack must ensure that the multipack carries the scheme multipack logo (if any).\n(3D) Any person who markets, offers for sale or sells a low volume drink product in Scotland must ensure that the low volume drink product does not carry any or all of the scheme logo, the multipack logo or the scheme return code.\n(3E) For the purposes of paragraph (3D), it is irrelevant if the low volume drink product is intended to be marketed, offered for sale or sold as a single item or in a multipack.\n(3F) Any person who markets, offers for sale or sells a low volume drink product in Scotland must ensure that a multipack which includes only low volume drink products does not carry the scheme multipack logo.”,\n(e) in paragraph (4),—\n(i) in the introductory words, for “and (3)”, substitute “, (3), (3B), (3C), (3D) or (3F)”,\n(ii) in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), for “or non-scheme article” in each place it occurs substitute “, non-scheme article, scheme multipack or low volume drink product”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 5(3) is relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2022/76 and S.S.I. 2023/201."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 5(3A) was inserted by S.S.I. 2022/76 and is relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2023/201."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111062876/regulation/7",
    "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."
}