{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-118",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-118.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1332",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/118",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "118",
  "heading": "Further offences",
  "text": "(1) A person who provides any information to the appropriate agency in connection with that agency’s functions under these Regulations, or who provides to a scheme operator any information referred to in regulation 45(1), commits an offence if—\n(a) the information is false or misleading in a material particular; and\n(b) the person provides the information knowing it to be false or misleading, or being reckless as to whether it is false or misleading.\n(2) It is an offence for a person to fail without reasonable excuse—\n(a) to comply with any requirement imposed in a notice under regulation 110(1); or\n(b) to give an officer of an appropriate agency any assistance or information which that officer reasonably requires in the exercise of their powers under regulation 112.\n(3) It is an offence for a person intentionally to delay or obstruct a person authorised by the appropriate agency—\n(a) in carrying out monitoring under regulation 109; or\n(b) in the exercise of their powers under regulation 112.\n(4) Where in accordance with Schedule 9 there is a group registration, the holding company commits an offence if it does not comply with an obligation referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) or (c) or (2)(a) or (b) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 9.\n(4A) It is an offence in Scotland for—\n(a) a licensor to which Part 1 of Schedule 10 applies to fail to—\n(i) collect and keep data as required by paragraph 5 of Schedule 10; or\n(ii) report data as required by paragraph 6 of Schedule 10;\n(b) a pub operating business to which Part 2 of Schedule 10 applies to fail to—\n(i) collect and keep data as required by paragraph 12 of Schedule 10; or\n(ii) report data as required by paragraph 13 of Schedule 10.\n(5) A person commits an offence if that person fails to comply with a compliance notice imposed, or an enforcement undertaking given and accepted, under regulation 121.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 118(4A) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 10(2) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 118 in force at 1.1.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1332/regulation/118",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:22:40.326092+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."
}