# The Environmental Protection (Wet Wipes Containing Plastic) (England) Regulations 2025, Regulation 6: Exemption: medical purposes


(1) Regulation 3(1) does not apply to—
(a) a person that supplies wet wipes containing plastic for use for medical purposes by or under the direction of a healthcare professional;
(b) a healthcare professional that supplies wet wipes containing plastic for medical purposes; or
(c) an NHS appliance contractor that supplies wet wipes containing plastic for medical purposes.
(2) In this regulation—
(a) “healthcare professional” means a person who is a registered member of a profession that is regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002;
(b) “medical purposes” means the purposes of preventative medicine, medical diagnosis, medical research and the provision of medical care and treatment;
(c) “NHS appliance contractor” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013;
(d) “registered”, in relation to a regulatory body, means registered in a register that the body maintains by virtue of any enactment.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348274974/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-england-regulations-2025/regulation-6
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.