{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-32",
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  "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/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Cancellation of registration of producers",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate agency may cancel the registration of a producer where it appears to the appropriate agency that—\n(a) the producer is in breach of any of the conditions in regulation 31;\n(b) the producer knowingly or recklessly supplied to a scheme operator information which is false or misleading in a material particular, to be used in connection with an application for the producer’s registration; or\n(c) the applicant for producer registration knowingly or recklessly supplied information which is false or misleading in a material particular, in connection with the application, or in connection with compliance with any of the conditions in regulation 31.\n(2) The appropriate agency must cancel the registration of a producer where—\n(a) it appears to the appropriate agency that any of the circumstances referred to in regulation 27(1) apply in relation to the producer; or\n(b) it is notified that the producer—\n(i) has become a member of a compliance scheme and been registered by the scheme operator pursuant to regulation 43(3)(a); or\n(ii) has otherwise ceased to be subject to producer responsibility obligations in respect of the relevant year.\n(3) Before cancelling a registration under paragraph (1) or (2), the appropriate agency must serve on the producer concerned written notice of—\n(a) its decision to cancel the registration;\n(b) the reasons for the decision;\n(c) the date when cancellation will take effect, not being earlier than—\n(i) in the case of cancellation under paragraph (1) or (2)(a), the expiration of the time limit in paragraph 2 or 4 of Schedule 11, as applicable, for bringing an appeal against the notice; or\n(ii) in the case of cancellation under paragraph (2)(b), 5 working days after the date of the notice;\n(d) the right of appeal under regulation 104(1)(b), where applicable; and\n(e) if the cancellation is under paragraph (1), and the grounds for cancellation constitute an offence, a statement identifying which offence in regulation 115 or 118 it appears to the appropriate agency is being committed by the producer.\n(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply where a registration is being cancelled because the producer has died.\n(5) The appropriate agency must inform the scheme administrator if it cancels the registration of a producer who is a liable producer under regulation 60.",
  "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/32",
    "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."
}