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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/single-use-carrier-bags-charge-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/4",
  "legislation_title": "The Single Use Carrier Bags Charge Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/single-use-carrier-bags-charge-regulations-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Administrator” means the Department of the Environment;\n“the charge” means the full consideration received by a seller for carrier bags which attract the requirement to charge;\n“consideration” includes any chargeable VAT;\n“the Department” means the Department of the Environment;\n“discretionary requirement” has the meaning given in paragraph 12(3) of Schedule 6 to the Climate Change Act 2008;\n“enforcement costs recovery notice” has the meaning given in regulation 16(1);\n“fixed monetary penalty” has the meaning given in paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 6 to the Climate Change Act 2008;\n“functions” includes powers and duties;\n“late payment penalty” means any increase in an amount payable—\n(a)as a fixed monetary penalty, by virtue of paragraph 10 of Schedule 2;\n(b)as a variable monetary penalty, by virtue of paragraph 9 of Schedule 3;\n(c)as a non-compliance penalty, by virtue of paragraph 8 of Schedule 4;\n“net proceeds of the charge” means the proceeds of the charge less—\n(a)any element of the charge in excess of 25 pence;\n(b)any amount of chargeable VAT in respect of the 25 pence charge.\n“non-compliance penalty notice” has the meaning given in paragraph 5(4) of Schedule 4;\n“non-monetary discretionary requirement” has the meaning given in paragraph 12(4) of Schedule 6 to the Climate Change Act 2008;\n“publicity notice” has the meaning given in paragraph 19(2) of Schedule 6 to the Climate Change Act 2008;\n“record” means the information specified in regulation 9(3);\n“reporting year” means—\n(a)the period starting on the date on which these Regulations come into operation and ending on 5 April 2014;\n(b)thereafter, the period commencing 6 April in one year and ending on 5 April the following year; the first such period to commence 6 April 2014;\n“specified sum” has the meaning given in paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 2;\n“variable monetary penalty” has the meaning given by paragraph 12(4) of Schedule 6 to the Climate Change Act 2008;\n“VAT” has the meaning given in section 96 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 .\n(2) References to—\n(a) a notice of intent in relation to a fixed monetary penalty, are references to a notice of intent served under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 2;\n(b) a final notice in relation to a fixed monetary penalty, are references to a final notice served under paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 2;\n(c) a notice of intent in relation to a discretionary requirement, are references to a notice of intent served under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 3;\n(d) a final notice in relation to a discretionary requirement, are references to a final notice served under paragraph 5(6) of Schedule 3;\n(e) a notice of intent in relation to a non-compliance penalty, are references to a notice of intent served under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4.\n(3) References to carrier bags which attract the requirement to charge are references to those carrier bags to which regulation 6 applies.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations (excl. regs. 1(1), 3) substituted (19.1.2015) by Carrier Bags Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 7), s. 9(3)(b) (6) (with s. 9(7))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2022) by The Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/33), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1994 c. 23; there are amendments to section 96 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/4/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:12:27.474221+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."
}