{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2025/178",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Wet Wipes Containing Plastic) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“authorised person” means a person authorised by the Department in accordance with Article 72 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;\n“business” includes—\n(a) any trade or profession;\n(b) any activity carried on by a charity;\n(c) any activity carried on by a body of persons whether corporate or unincorporated; and\n(d) the provision of services by or on behalf of the Department of Health under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;\n“charity” means—\n(a) anything which is a charity—\n(i) within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008;\n(ii) within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Charities Act 2011;\n(iii) within the meaning of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005; or\n(iv) within the meaning of section 202 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010;\n“the Department” means the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;\n“end user” means any person to whom wet wipes containing plastic are offered or supplied, other than a person to whom they are offered or supplied for the purposes of—\n(a) supplying it, in the course of a business, to another person; or\n(b) a manufacturing process;\n“the Order” means the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;\n“plastic” means a material consisting of polymer as defined in Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restrictions of Chemicals (REACH), to which additives or other substances may have been added, and which can function as a main structural component of final products, with the exception of natural polymers that have not been chemically modified;\n“supply” means supply, whether by way of sale or otherwise;\n“wet wipe” means a non-woven piece of fabric which has been pre-wetted and which is not designed or intended to be re-used.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 18.5.2027, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I.14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2008 c. 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2011 c .25"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2005 asp 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2010 c. 4. Section 202 has been amended by paragraph 27(2) of Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 2010 (c. 13), section 35(5) of the Finance Act 2014 (c.26) and S.I. 2012/964"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "OJ L 396, 30/12/2006, p. 1-849, as last amended by Regulation EC No. 2020/1149 (OJ L 252, 4.8.2020, p. 24-27)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/178/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:24:56.721709+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."
}