# The Environmental Protection (Wet Wipes Containing Plastic) (England) Regulations 2025, Regulation 2: Interpretation


In these Regulations—
“business” includes—
(a) any trade or profession;
(b) any activity carried on by a charity;
(c) any activity carried on by a body of persons whether corporate or unincorporated; and
(d) the provision of services by or on behalf of the Secretary of State under the National Health Service Act 2006;
“charity” means anything which is a charity—
(a) within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Charities Act 2011; or
(b) for the purposes of section 202 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010;
“compliance notice” has the meaning given by paragraph 1(1)(b) of the Schedule;
“end user” means any person to whom wet wipes containing plastic are offered or supplied, other than a person to whom they are offered or supplied for the purposes of—
(a) supplying it, in the course of a business, to another person; or
(b) a manufacturing process;
“enforcement officer” has the meaning given by regulation 9(3);
“enforcement undertaking” has the meaning given by paragraph 17(2) of the Schedule;
“fixed monetary penalty” has the meaning given by paragraph 1(1)(a) of the Schedule;
“local authority” means—
(a) in relation to the City of London, the Common Council for the City of London;
(b) in relation to an area in the rest of London, the London borough council for that area;
(c) in relation to the Isles of Scilly, the Council of the Isles of Scilly;
(d) in relation to an area in the rest of England, the county council for that area or, where there is no county council for that area, the district council for that area;
“non-compliance penalty” has the meaning given by paragraph 24(1) of the Schedule;
“plastic” means a material consisting of polymer as defined in Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), to which additives or other substances may have been added, and which can function as a main structural component of final products, with the exception of natural polymers that have not been chemically modified;
“regulator” means a local authority;
“stop notice” has the meaning given by paragraph 9(2) of the Schedule;
“supply” means supply, whether by way of sale or not;
“third party undertaking” has the meaning given by paragraph 3(1) of the Schedule;
“wet wipe” means a non-woven piece of fabric which has been pre-wetted and which is not designed or intended to be re-used.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348274974/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-england-regulations-2025/regulation-2
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