{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-waste-data-reporting-no2-regulations-northern-ireland-2023/regulation-7A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-waste-data-reporting-no2-regulations-northern-ireland-2023/regulation-7A.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/7A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7A",
  "heading": "Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Guidance",
  "text": "(1) The Department must provide guidance for the purposes of regulation 7—\n(a) on the evidence which may be used by a producer to demonstrate that primary packaging or shipment packaging is supplied to a business or a public institution which in either case is the final user of the packaging;\n(b) on when—\n(i) a product is to be treated as being designed only for use by a business or a public institution; and\n(ii) packaging for that product is to be treated as not reasonably likely to be disposed of in a household bin or a public bin.\n(2) The Department may take the following factors into account in the preparation of guidance under paragraph (1)(b)—\n(a) the size of the packaging;\n(b) the weight of the packaging;\n(c) whether the supply of a product is subject to restrictions imposed by or under primary or secondary legislation;\n(d) how available a product or its packaging is to consumers;\n(e) whether a product is likely to be used by a business in a household;\n(f) any other factor the Department considers relevant.",
  "extent": null,
  "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. 7, 7A substituted for reg. 7 (1.5.2024) by The Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/80), regs. 1(2), 7 (with reg. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2023/25/regulation/7A",
    "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."
}