{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-116",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-116.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348264654",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/116",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "116",
  "heading": "Offences: scheme operators",
  "text": "It is an offence for a scheme operator—\n(a) to operate a compliance scheme without registering the compliance scheme under regulations 43(1)(b) and 51(1);\n(b) to breach a condition of the compliance scheme’s registration in regulation 53;\n(c) to fail to carry out the obligation to apply for the registration of a member of the compliance scheme under regulation 43(3)(a);\n(d) to fail to make an application referred to in sub-paragraph (c) by the date on which that application is required to be made under regulation 44(1)(a);\n(e) to fail to report information in relation to a member of the compliance scheme which the scheme operator is required to report under regulations 43(3)(b) and 44(2);\n(f) to fail to make a report of any of the information referred to in sub-paragraph (e) by the date on which that report is required to be made under regulation 35, 36, 37 or 38, as those regulations apply by virtue of regulation 44(2);\n(g) to fail to carry out the recycling obligations under regulation 43(3)(c) and 44(3);\n(h) to fail to keep records and make returns to the appropriate agency as required by regulations 43(6)(a) and 55;\n(i) to fail to submit a statement of compliance to the appropriate agency as required by regulation 56;\n(j) to fail to give each member of the compliance scheme—\n(i) the notice required by regulation 49(5) if approval of the compliance scheme is withdrawn; or\n(ii) the notice required by regulation 54(4) if registration of the compliance scheme is cancelled.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348264654/regulation/116",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:40:28.668627+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."
}