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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-1997/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-1997/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/648",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Refusal to register a scheme",
  "text": "Any decision of the appropriate Agency under regulation 12(5) to refuse to register a scheme shall be notified, within 28 days of the decision, to the operator of the scheme in writing together with—\n(a) the reasons for the decision;\n(b) a statement as to the right of appeal under Part IV of these Regulations; and\n(c) a statement as to the offence specified in regulation 34(1)(a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/648/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:53.831601+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."
}