# Environmental Protection Act 1990, Paragraph 3A

Extent: E+W

(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).
(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.
(3) The charge is payable to the authority on demand.
(4) The sum payable as a charge under this paragraph is recoverable by the authority as a debt due to it.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/schedule/4/paragraph/3A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990/schedule-4/paragraph-3A
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