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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-scheme-for-drinks-containers-england-and-northern-ireland-regulations-2024/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-scheme-for-drinks-containers-england-and-northern-ireland-regulations-2024/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348266221",
  "legislation_title": "The Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers (England and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-deposit-scheme-for-drinks-containers-england-and-northern-ireland-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Meaning of “drink”",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these Regulations “drink” means—\n(a) water suitable for human consumption,\n(b) a beverage suitable for human consumption, including a sports drink,\n(c) a liquid which constitutes a beverage suitable for human consumption if it is—\n(i) diluted,\n(ii) combined with crushed ice or processed so as to create crushed ice,\n(iii) combined with carbon dioxide, or\n(iv) prepared by way of a process which involves any combination of the processes mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) to (iii),\nsuch as fruit squash or fruit cordial.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(c) does not include any liquid which is used only—\n(a) to add flavour to, or enhance the flavour of, a beverage suitable for human consumption, or\n(b) to sweeten a beverage suitable for human consumption,\nsuch as coffee flavouring syrup, sugar syrup or hot sauce.\n(3) “Sports drink” means a liquid, suitable for human consumption, which is advertised or marketed as a product to enhance physical performance, accelerate recovery after exercise or increase muscle mass.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348266221/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:40:07.969373+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."
}