{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/regulation-68.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/68",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Payments and interest",
  "text": "(1) A liable producer who has received a notice of liability under regulation 67 or 67A must pay the disposal fee and the administration fee stated in the notice for the assessment year to the scheme administrator in quarterly instalments, or as otherwise specified in the notice of liability, by the date or dates specified in the notice of liability (the “due date”).\n(2) The scheme administrator may, if the notice of liability includes a statement in accordance with regulation 67(2)(g) or 67A(7), charge a liable producer interest at the rate stated in that notice on the amount of any disposal fees or administration fees which are not paid by the liable producer by the due date.\n(3) Any disposal fee , administration fee or interest which is owed to the scheme administrator under this regulation may be recovered as a debt due to the scheme administrator.\n(4) A liable producer contravenes this paragraph (and, accordingly, is liable to civil sanctions under regulation 121 and Schedule 13) if the producer fails to pay an amount specified in a notice of liability by 50 days after the due date.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 68(1) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 7(7)(a)(i) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(1) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 7(7)(a)(ii) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(2) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 7(7)(b)(i) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 68(2) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 7(7)(b)(ii) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(2) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 7(7)(b)(iii) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(3) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 7(7)(c) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 68 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/68",
    "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."
}