{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Producers",
  "text": "In regulation 6 (producers)—\n(a) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) A producer in respect of a low volume drink product which meets the conditions set out in paragraph (2B) is the person who markets, offers for sale or sells a low volume drink product to a consumer in Scotland (“the low volume drink product retailer”).\n(2B) The conditions are that—\n(a) an item of packaging, in which that low volume drink product is contained or sold, is filled and sealed by the low volume drink product retailer, and\n(b) the low volume drink product is sold by the low volume drink product retailer to a consumer for consumption in any place other than on the premises of sale.\n(2C) A producer in respect of any other low volume drink product is—\n(a) in the case of a low volume drink product branded in the United Kingdom, the brand owner,\n(b) in the case of a low volume drink product branded by a brand owner outside the United Kingdom, the importer.\n(2D) The operator in respect of an online retail sale is to be regarded as the importer for the purposes of paragraph (2C) where a low volume drink product is being sold—\n(a) for the first time in the United Kingdom,\n(b) to a consumer in Scotland, and\n(c) by way of a retail sale.”.\n(b) in paragraph (3)—\n(i) in the definition of “brand owner”—\n(aa) after “packaging” insert “, or, as the case may be, on a low volume drink product or on packaging for that low volume drink product,”,\n(bb) after “scheme article” where it appears the second time insert “, or, as the case may be, the low volume drink product”,\n(ii) in the definition of “importer”, after “scheme article” insert “, or, as the case may be, the low volume drink product,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 6 is relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2022/76."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111062876/regulation/8",
    "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."
}