{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-plastic-straws-cotton-buds-and-stirrers-england-regulations-2020/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2020/9780111196205",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Plastic Straws, Cotton Buds and Stirrers) (England) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-plastic-straws-cotton-buds-and-stirrers-england-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Offence: supply of single-use plastic stemmed cotton buds to an end user",
  "text": "(1) A person who, in the course of a business, supplies or offers to supply a single-use plastic stemmed cotton bud to an end user is guilty of an offence.\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to the exemptions in regulations 11 to 13, and to regulation 15.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780111196205/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:58:40.385686+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."
}