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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-plastic-straws-cotton-buds-and-stirrers-england-regulations-2020/regulation-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Exemption: packaging",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 4(1) does not apply to the supply of a single-use plastic straw that is packaging.\n(2) 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": "S.I. 2015/1640, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780111196205/regulation/8",
    "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."
}