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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-plastic-plates-etc-and-polystyrene-containers-etc-england-regulations-2023/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/982",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Plastic Plates etc. and Polystyrene Containers etc.) (England) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-plastic-plates-etc-and-polystyrene-containers-etc-england-regulations-2023",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Completion certificates",
  "text": "(1) Where, after service of a stop notice, the regulator is satisfied that the person has taken the steps specified in the notice, the regulator must issue a certificate to that effect (a “completion certificate”).\n(2) The stop notice ceases to have effect on the issue of a completion certificate.\n(3) The person on whom the stop notice is served may at any time apply for a completion certificate.\n(4) The regulator must make a decision as to whether to issue a completion certificate, and give written notice of the decision to the applicant, within 14 days of such an application.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/982/schedule/1/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:40:51.207125+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."
}