{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-76.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/76",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Distribution to relevant authorities and the scheme administrator",
  "text": "(1) The scheme administrator must apply the disposal fees received, or due to be received, from producers under Chapter 3 in—\n(a) making payments to relevant authorities towards their chargeable disposal costs; and\n(b) meeting the scheme administrator’s public information disposal costs.\n(2) The scheme administrator must ensure that, so far as possible, where sufficient disposal fees have been received, or are due to be received, from liable producers—\n(a) the amount paid to a relevant authority in relation to an assessment year is equal to the chargeable disposal costs of the relevant authority for that assessment year; and\n(b) its public information disposal costs are met.\n(3) A scheme administrator is not required to distribute to relevant authorities more than the total amount of disposal fees that has been received, or is due to be received, from producers, after taking account of its public information disposal costs.\n(4) Where the disposal fees received, or expected to be received, from producers under these Regulations are not sufficient to cover the total chargeable disposal costs of all relevant authorities and the public information disposal costs of the scheme administrator, the scheme administrator may determine—\n(a) what proportion of the total amount of those disposal fees is to be—\n(i) distributed to relevant authorities; and\n(ii) applied in meeting its public information disposal costs; and\n(b) how the total amount to be distributed to relevant authorities is to be divided between those authorities.\n(5) Payments must be made to relevant authorities in quarterly instalments during the financial year, at the end of each quarter, or following such other period as may be determined by the scheme administrator.\n(6) Where, as a result of a determination under paragraph (4), the scheme administrator intends to change the amounts or dates of payments to a relevant authority that were stated in an assessment notice given to the relevant authority under regulation 74, the scheme administrator must—\n(a) give the relevant authority notice in writing of that change; and\n(b) set out in that notice the reason for the change.",
  "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/76",
    "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."
}