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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-plastic-products-scotland-regulations-2021/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-plastic-products-scotland-regulations-2021/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2021/410",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Scotland) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-plastic-products-scotland-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Exemption: support service which provides personal care or personal support",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 5(1) does not apply to the supply of a single-use plastic straw for use in the course of a support service which provides personal care or personal support.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“personal care” and “personal support” have the meanings given in paragraph 20 of schedule 12 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, and\n“support service” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of schedule 12 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 1.6.2022, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “support service” is modified by S.S.I. 2012/44."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/410/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:53:10.203440+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."
}