{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-19.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/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Distributors",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, a “distributor” means a person who manufactures or imports unfilled packaging and supplies that packaging to another person.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a distributor is a producer in relation to any unfilled packaging which is—\n(a) manufactured or imported by the distributor; and\n(b) supplied to any person, other than a large producer who fills or packs the packaging before supplying it to any other person.\n(3) But a distributor is not a producer in relation to unfilled packaging described in paragraph (2) if a large producer who is a brand owner, a packer/filler or a first UK owner is the producer in relation to that packaging under regulation 16, 17 or 18(4) once the packaging is filled.",
  "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/19",
    "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."
}