{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990/schedule-4/paragraph-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990/schedule-4/paragraph-3A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/43",
  "legislation_title": "Environmental Protection Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where the local authority is entitled to sell or otherwise dispose of a shopping or luggage trolley in accordance with paragraph 3(1)(b).\n(2) If it appears to the authority that a particular person is the owner of the trolley, the authority may charge him a sum in respect of the removal, storage and disposal of the trolley.\n(3) The charge is payable to the authority on demand.\n(4) The sum payable as a charge under this paragraph is recoverable by the authority as a debt due to it.\n(5) In proceedings against a person under sub-paragraph (4) for enforcement of a charge, it is a defence for the person to prove that he was not the owner of the trolley to which the charge relates at the time it was removed.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3A inserted (E.W.) (6.4.2006 for E. and 27.10.2006 for W.) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 99(3), 108 (with s. 100); S.I. 2006/795, art. 2(3), Sch. 2; S.I. 2006/2797, art. 2(r)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/schedule/4/paragraph/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:39:40.080966+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."
}