{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2026/75",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Wet Wipes Containing Plastic) (Scotland) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-scotland-regulations-2026",
  "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 health care professional, or\n(b) a health care professional that supplies wet wipes containing plastic for medical purposes.\n(2) In this regulation—\n(a) “health care professional” means—\n(i) a person who is a registered member of a profession that is regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) (the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002, and\n(ii) a “social service worker” within the meaning given in section 77 (interpretation) of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001.\n(b) “medical purposes” means the purposes of preventative medicine, medical diagnoses, medical research and the provision of medical care and treatment,\n(c) “registered”, in relation to a regulatory body, means registered in a register that the body maintains by virtue of an enactment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 17, to which there are no amendments relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2001 asp 8. Section 77 was amended by S.I. 2019/593 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/75/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:31:23.920023+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."
}