{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-substances-and-packaging-legislative-functions-and-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-substances-and-packaging-legislative-functions-and-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1647",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazardous Substances and Packaging (Legislative Functions and Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-substances-and-packaging-legislative-functions-and-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015",
  "text": "(1) The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015 are amended as follows.\n(2) After regulation 6 insert—\n“Qualifying Northern Ireland Goods\n6A. (1) Where paragraph (2) applies, packaging is to be treated as being in conformity with these Regulations.\n(2) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) the packaging—\n(i) is in conformity with these Regulations as they apply in Northern Ireland; and\n(ii) is a qualifying Northern Ireland good.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) “in conformity with these Regulations” means, in relation to packaging, that—\n(i) the packaging is not prohibited by regulation 4 or 5 from being placed on the market; and\n(ii) the responsible person has complied, or is complying, with any obligations under this Part in respect of the packaging;\n(b) “qualifying Northern Ireland goods” has the meaning given to it from time to time in regulations made under section 8C(6) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/1640, amended by S.I. 2018/942 and 2020/904, and prospectively amended from IP completion day by S.I. 2019/188. S.I. 2019/188 is amended by S.I. 2020/1540 to limit the extent of its amendments to S.I. 2015/1640 to England and Wales and Scotland."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1647/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:19:06.756387+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."
}