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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-1997/regulation-24",
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  "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/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Schemes—records and returns",
  "text": "(1) The operator of a scheme shall maintain, and retain for at least 4 years after they are made, records of the information referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3) below, and make returns of the information referred to in paragraph (3) below to the appropriate Agency upon request.\n(2) In respect of the year 1997 the information is, for each producer which is a member of the scheme in that year, the information referred to in regulations 12(3)(c) and 14, together with any changes notified in accordance with the condition referred to in regulation 13(d)(iv).\n(3) In respect of the year 1998 and subsequent years the information is, in addition to the information referred to in paragraph (2) above—\n(a) the amount in tonnes, to the nearest tonne, of packaging waste provided to a reprocessor through the scheme;\n(b) the amount in tonnes, to the nearest tonne, of each packaging material comprised in the packaging waste referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above, provided to a reprocessor through the scheme; and\n(c) the dates on which, and the name and address of the reprocessor to which, the packaging waste referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above was so provided.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3) above, for the year 1998 and subsequent years packaging materials means the materials mentioned in paragraph 6(1)(b) of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3447",
      "affecting_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "am & rev in pt (E) (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3294",
      "affecting_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (E) (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3294",
      "affecting_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (W) (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/3238",
      "affecting_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (W) (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/3238",
      "affecting_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (S) (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2003/613",
      "affecting_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (S) (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2003/613",
      "affecting_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/648/regulation/24",
    "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."
}