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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-england-regulations-2024/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-england-regulations-2024/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348264647",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (England) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-england-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Disposal of single-use vapes",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may direct that single-use vapes of a description specified in paragraph (2) are to be treated as waste and disposed of or otherwise treated as the Secretary of State considers necessary.\n(2) The single-use vapes referred to in paragraph (1) are any single-use vapes which have been supplied, offered for supply or held in a person’s possession for supply in contravention of Part 2, and include single-use vapes in respect of which a regulator has imposed civil sanctions under these Regulations in relation to the offence.\n(3) A direction under paragraph (1)—\n(a) may be given to any one or more regulators in connection with any enforcement action taken by a regulator under these Regulations;\n(b) may be applicable in respect of single-use vapes retained by any enforcement officer who is—\n(i) authorised by the regulator concerned, and\n(ii) acting for an authorised purpose;\n(c) must not be executed by the regulator concerned (or by a person acting on the regulator’s behalf) until any right of appeal conferred in relation to the offence concerned under the Schedule to these Regulations is exhausted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348264647/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:40:29.592798+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."
}