{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-regulations-northern-ireland-2024/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-regulations-northern-ireland-2024/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2024/212",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-regulations-northern-ireland-2024",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Disposal of single-use vapes",
  "text": "(1) The Department may direct that single-use vapes of a description specified in paragraph (2) are to be treated as waste and disposed of or otherwise treated as the Department considers necessary.\n(2) The single-use vapes referred to in paragraph (1) are any single-use vapes which have been supplied, offered for supply or held in a person’s possession for supply, in contravention of regulation 4(1)(a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 7-9 inserted (29.7.2025) by The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/126), regs. 1, 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/212/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:27:17.737106+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."
}