{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-hazardous-substances-and-packaging-legislative-functions-and-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2020/9780348213607",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazardous Substances and Packaging (Legislative Functions and Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-hazardous-substances-and-packaging-legislative-functions-and-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part and in Schedule 1—\n“the 2012 Regulations” means the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2012;\n“EEE” has the meaning given in regulation 4 of the 2012 Regulations, and a reference to a numbered category of EEE is a reference to the category of EEE so numbered in Schedule 1 to the 2012 Regulations;\n“exemption” means an exemption, for a specified application of a specified material or component of EEE, from the restriction in regulation 3(1) of the 2012 Regulations on the use of certain hazardous substances in EEE;\n“expiry date”, in relation to an exemption in Table 1 in Schedule A2 to the 2012 Regulations, means the date specified in the sixth column of that table as the date on which, subject to regulation 5(8), the exemption expires;\n“GB REACH” means Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH);\n“homogeneous material” has the meaning given in regulation 3(3) of the 2012 Regulations;\n“restricted substance” means a substance listed in Schedule A1 to the 2012 Regulations;\n“the list of restricted substances” means the list of substances set out in Schedule A1 to the 2012 Regulations;\n“waste” means any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/3032, amended by S.I. 2014/1771, 2018/942 and 2019/492, and prospectively amended from IP completion day by S.I. 2019/188. S.I. 2019/188 is amended by S.I. 2020/xxx to limit the extent of its amendments to S.I. 2012/3032 to England and Wales and Scotland."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Schedule A2 is inserted into the 2012 Regulations by regulation 12(8) of, and Schedule 2 to, these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "EUR 2006/1907."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Schedule A1 is inserted into the 2012 Regulations by regulation 12(8) of, and Schedule 2 to, these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348213607/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:48:40.980706+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."
}