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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-designation-of-scheme-administrator-order-2025/article-4",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111062883",
  "legislation_title": "The Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland (Designation of Scheme Administrator) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-and-return-scheme-for-scotland-designation-of-scheme-administrator-order-2025",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Operational plan",
  "text": "(1) The scheme administrator must submit its operational plan to SEPA by 31 March 2026.\n(2) The scheme administrator—\n(a) must state in its operational plan how it intends to comply with its obligations under the Regulations and to exercise the functions conferred on it under this Order,\n(b) must consider how its operational plan would adapt to and manage any expansion of the types of scheme material,\n(c) may review its operational plan at any time, and must do so—\n(i) by the end of the period of 12 months beginning with 1 October 2027, and\n(ii) subsequently at intervals not exceeding 12 months.\n(3) The scheme administrator may revise its operational plan following a review under paragraph (2)(c) and must submit any revision of it, as soon as reasonably possible, to SEPA.\n(4) SEPA may approve with or without modifications—\n(a) the operational plan submitted under paragraph (1),\n(b) any revision of the operational plan submitted under paragraph (3).\n(5) An approval for the purposes of paragraph (4) must be given in writing.\n(6) The scheme administrator must promptly incorporate any revision approved under paragraph (4) into its operational plan and must send a copy of that revised operational plan to SEPA, if requested to do so.\n(7) The scheme administrator must send a copy of the operational plan, or as the case may be, the revised operational plan, approved by SEPA under paragraph (4), to the Scottish Ministers, if requested to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111062883/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:28:38.717751+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."
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