{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-plastic-straws-cotton-buds-and-stirrers-england-regulations-2020/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-plastic-straws-cotton-buds-and-stirrers-england-regulations-2020/regulation-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offence: supply of single-use plastic straws 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 straw, other than an attached plastic straw, is guilty of an offence.\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to the exemptions in regulations 5 to 9, and to regulation 15.\n(3) A person who, in the course of a business, supplies or offers to supply to an end user a drink product with an attached plastic straw is guilty of an offence.\n(4) Paragraph (3) is subject to the exemption in regulation 7.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) or (3) is liable on summary conviction to a fine.\n(6) In this regulation, “attached plastic straw” means a single-use plastic straw which is attached to the packaging of a drink product and is intended to be used to consume that drink.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}