{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-waste-data-reporting-no2-regulations-northern-ireland-2023/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-waste-data-reporting-no2-regulations-northern-ireland-2023/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2023/25",
  "legislation_title": "The Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-waste-data-reporting-no2-regulations-northern-ireland-2023",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Approved persons",
  "text": "(1) The Department may approve a person listed in paragraph (2) for the purposes of—\n(a) verifying information reported by a producer to the Department under regulation 18(4)(b); or\n(b) verifying information provided by a producer to the operator of a scheme under regulation 20(2)(b)(ii).\n(2) The persons listed are, where the producer—\n(a) is an individual, that individual;\n(b) is a partnership, a partner;\n(ba) is a limited liability partnership, a member of that partnership;\n(c) is a company registered in the United Kingdom, a director or company secretary of that company;\n(d) is an unincorporated body, an individual who has control or management of that body; or\n(e) is a company which does not have a registered office in the United Kingdom, an individual who has control or management of the producer.\n(3) Subject to regulation 26, the Department may approve the delegation by an approved person of the person’s functions to any other person.\n(4) An approved person who has delegated functions under paragraph (3) may continue to perform those functions.\n(5) For the purposes of these Regulations, an act of a delegate performing the functions of an approved person on that person’s behalf is to be treated as an act of the approved person.\n(6) In this regulation, and in regulation 26, “functions” means the functions referred to in paragraph (1)(a) and (b).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.1.2025) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1332), reg. 1(2), Sch. 17 para. 1(e) (with reg. 12, Sch. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 25(2)(ba) inserted (30.6.2023) by The Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/106), regs. 1(2), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 25 in operation at 28.2.2023, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2023/25/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:32:23.967075+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."
}