{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-12.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/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Exclusion of charities",
  "text": "(1) The following obligations do not apply to a producer which is a charity—\n(a) producer responsibility obligations under regulation 25 and Part 3; and\n(b) liability to pay annual disposal and administration fees under regulation 60.\n(2) For these purposes, “charity” means—\n(a) anything which is a charity—\n(i) within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Charities Act 2011 or section 1(1) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008; or\n(ii) for the purposes of section 202 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010; and\n(b) any body entered in the Scottish Charity Register under the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 12(1) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 4(5)(a) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12 renumbered as reg. 12(2) (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 4(5)(b) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 12(2) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 4(5)(c) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 1.1.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2011 c. 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2008 c. 12 (N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2010 c. 4. Section 202 has been amended by paragraph 27(2) of Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 2010 (c. 13), section 35(5) of the Finance Act 2014 (c. 26) and S.I. 2012/964."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2005 asp 10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1332/regulation/12",
    "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."
}