{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-117",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-117.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/117",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "117",
  "heading": "Offences: reprocessors and exporters",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person to—\n(a) operate a reprocessing site at which a category of packaging waste is recycled or accepted for recycling, without being registered with the appropriate agency in accordance with regulation 85 as a reprocessor of that category of packaging waste at that reprocessing site; or\n(b) export a category of packaging waste without being registered with the appropriate agency in accordance with regulation 86 as an exporter of that category of packaging waste.\n(2) A reprocessor with a registration under regulation 85 or an exporter with a registration under regulation 86 commits an offence if the reprocessor or exporter—\n(a) fails to comply with a condition of that registration in regulation 88; or\n(b) contravenes a requirement in regulation 91 or in Part 2 of Schedule 8.\n(3) It is an offence for a person to—\n(a) issue a PRN otherwise than in accordance with regulation 92(1);\n(b) issue a PERN otherwise than in accordance with regulation 92(2); or\n(c) issue a PRN or a PERN pursuant to information which is false or misleading in a material particular, knowing the information to be false or misleading or being reckless as to whether it is false or misleading.\n(4) A reprocessor or exporter who has an accreditation to issue PRNs or PERNs commits an offence if the reprocessor or exporter fails to comply with a condition of that accreditation in regulation 98 or Part 3 of Schedule 8.",
  "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/117",
    "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."
}