{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-plastic-plates-etc-and-polystyrene-containers-etc-england-regulations-2023/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-plastic-plates-etc-and-polystyrene-containers-etc-england-regulations-2023/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348248272",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Plastic Plates etc. and Polystyrene Containers etc.) (England) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-plastic-plates-etc-and-polystyrene-containers-etc-england-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Offence: supply of single-use plastic plates, trays or bowls to an end user",
  "text": "(1) A person who, in the course of a business, supplies or offers to supply to an end user a single-use plastic plate, tray or bowl is guilty of an offence.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the supply of a single-use plastic plate, tray or bowl that is packaging.\n(3) Paragraph (1) is subject, in respect of a tray or bowl, to section 2 of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine.\n(5) In this regulation, “packaging” has the same meaning as in regulation 3 of the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2020 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/1640. Regulation 3 was amended in relation to England by S.I. 2019/188."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348248272/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:43:19.152677+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."
}