{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/schedule-8/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/schedule-8/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/30",
  "legislation_title": "Environment Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Power to establish deposit schemes",
  "text": "(1) The relevant national authority may by regulations establish deposit schemes for any of the following purposes—\n(a) sustaining, promoting or securing an increase in the recycling or reuse of materials;\n(b) reducing the incidence of littering or fly-tipping.\n(2) A deposit scheme is a scheme under which—\n(a) a person supplied with a deposit item by a scheme supplier pays the supplier an amount (a “deposit”), and\n(b) a person who provides a deposit item to a scheme collector is entitled to be paid an amount (a “refund”) in respect of that item by the collector.\n(3) A “deposit item” is a specified item that is supplied—\n(a) by way of sale, or\n(b) in connection with the supply of goods or services.\n(4) A deposit scheme may make provision about the circumstances in which a deposit or refund is to be paid in respect of a deposit item.\n(5) A person may be specified—\n(a) as a scheme supplier if the person is a supplier or producer of deposit items;\n(b) as a scheme collector if the person is a supplier or producer of deposit items or is a scheme administrator (see paragraph 4).\n(6) A deposit scheme may provide that the amount of the deposit or refund in respect of a deposit item is—\n(a) an amount specified,\n(b) an amount determined and published by the relevant national authority in accordance with the scheme, or\n(c) an amount determined by a scheme administrator in accordance with the scheme.\n(7) In this paragraph “specified” means specified or described in a deposit scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 1 in force at 9.1.2022 for E.W., see s. 147(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 1 in force at 28.2.2022 for N.I. by S.R. 2022/54, art. 2(1)(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/30/schedule/8/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}