# The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Scotland) Regulations 2024, Regulation 14: Disposal of single-use vapes


(1) The Scottish Ministers 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 Scottish Ministers consider necessary.
(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), and include any single-use vapes in respect of which an enforcement officer has issued a fixed penalty notice under regulation 11 and the fixed penalty has subsequently been paid in accordance with regulation 13(3).
(3) A direction under paragraph (1)—
(a) may be given to any one or more local authorities in connection with any enforcement action taken under these Regulations,
(b) may be applicable in respect of single-use vapes retained by any enforcement officer,
(c) must not be executed by the local authority concerned (or by a person acting on the local authority’s behalf until any right of appeal in relation to the offence is exhausted.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/269/regulation/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-14
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