{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/schedule-7/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-and-packaging-waste-regulations-2024/schedule-7/paragraph-1.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": "schedule/7/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Power to delegate functions",
  "text": "(1) The scheme administrator may enter into an agreement with a public body or with a private sector body for that body to perform any of the functions of the scheme administrator on behalf of the scheme administrator.\n(2) The scheme administrator must obtain the consent of each of the appropriate authorities before entering into an agreement under sub-paragraph (1).\n(2A) Sub-paragraphs (2B) and (2C) apply where the person appointed as the scheme administrator is the Secretary of State or a statutory body.\n(2B) The scheme administrator may appoint a body (a “Producer Responsibility Organisation” or “PRO”) to—\n(a) perform on behalf of the scheme administrator, or\n(b) provide advice, recommendations or support to the scheme administrator in relation to the performance by the scheme administrator of,\nsuch of the scheme administrator’s functions as are specified in the appointment.\n(2C) The scheme administrator must, before appointing a body as a Producer Responsibility Organisation, obtain the consent of each of the appropriate authorities to—\n(a) the appointment of that body;\n(b) the proposed duration of the appointment; and\n(c) the functions which it proposes to appoint that body to perform.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 1(2A)-(2C) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(a) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 1(3) omitted (1.1.2026) by virtue of The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1369), regs. 1(2), 14(2)(b) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 1 in force at 12.12.2024, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1332/schedule/7/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}