Regulation 46 Mid-year changes to compliance scheme membership

Where a person who is a producer in respect of a relevant year (“P”) becomes a member of a compliance scheme during that year, the scheme operator must carry out the whole of P’s relevant obligations in relation to that year.

Where P ceases to be a member of a compliance scheme during a relevant year, subject to paragraph (3) P must comply with the whole of its producer responsibility obligations in relation to that year.

Where P ceases to be a member of one compliance scheme (“the first scheme”) and becomes a member of another compliance scheme (“the second scheme”) during that year, the scheme operator of the first scheme is not required to perform any of P’s relevant obligations for that year and the scheme operator of the second scheme must carry out the whole of those obligations in relation to that year.

Paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) apply also in relation to an obligation which was carried out or partly carried out, or was due to have been carried out, by another person before the date of the change referred to in those paragraphs.

In this regulation, “relevant obligation” means an obligation referred to in regulation 43(3).