{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-england-regulations-2025/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-england-regulations-2025/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1218",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Wet Wipes Containing Plastic) (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exemption: medical purposes",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 3(1) does not apply to—\n(a) a person that supplies wet wipes containing plastic for use for medical purposes by or under the direction of a healthcare professional;\n(b) a healthcare professional that supplies wet wipes containing plastic for medical purposes; or\n(c) an NHS appliance contractor that supplies wet wipes containing plastic for medical purposes.\n(2) In this regulation—\n(a) “healthcare professional” means a person who is a registered member of a profession that is regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002;\n(b) “medical purposes” means the purposes of preventative medicine, medical diagnosis, medical research and the provision of medical care and treatment;\n(c) “NHS appliance contractor” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013;\n(d) “registered”, in relation to a regulatory body, means registered in a register that the body maintains by virtue of any enactment.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 19.5.2027, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 17. Section 25(3) has been amended by paragraph 17(2) and (3) of Schedule 10 to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 4 to the Pharmacy Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/231), paragraph 56(b) of Schedule 15 to the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7) and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 4 to the Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/349, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1218",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Protection (Wet Wipes Containing Plastic) (England) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1218/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:09:26.018445+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."
}