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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/schedule-4/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/30",
  "legislation_title": "Environment Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Examples of provision that may be made",
  "text": "(1) The regulations may make provision about—\n(a) the persons to whom producer responsibility obligations apply;\n(b) the products or materials in relation to which producer responsibility obligations apply;\n(c) the obligations imposed by the regulations.\n(2) The regulations may make provision about targets to be achieved in relation to the proportion of products or materials (by weight, volume or otherwise) to be re-used, redistributed, recovered or recycled (either generally or in a specified way).\n(3) The regulations may make provision about circumstances in which a producer responsibility obligation is to be treated as met (in whole or in part) by payment of a sum of money, including provision about—\n(a) the manner in which and persons by whom the amount of such sums is to be determined, and\n(b) the persons to whom such sums are to be paid.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 147(3)-(6)"
    },
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at 24.1.2022 for E. by S.I. 2022/48, reg. 2(q)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at 28.2.2022 for N.I. by S.R. 2022/54, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at 7.3.2022 for W. by S.I. 2022/223, regs. 1(2), 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at 9.11.2022 for S. by S.S.I. 2022/305, reg. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/30/schedule/4/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:04.548359+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."
}