# The Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Wales) Regulations 2010, Paragraph 1: Exemptions

Extent: E+W

(1) The kinds of single use carrier bags to which regulation 6 does not apply are—
(za) bags used solely to contain one or more items of the following kinds—
(i) unpackaged food for human or animal consumption;
(ii) unpackaged loose seeds, bulbs, corms or rhizomes;
(iii) any unpackaged axe, knife, knife blade or razor blade;
(iv) unpackaged goods contaminated by soil;
(v) items from the categories specified in sub-paragraph (2);
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(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(e) bags used solely to contain packaged—
(i) uncooked fish or fish products;
(ii) uncooked meat or meat products;
(iii) uncooked poultry or poultry products,
and in respect of which the maximum dimensions are 205 millimetres (“mm”) (width) x 125 mm (gusset width) x 458 mm (height inclusive of handles);
(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(g) bags used to contain purchases made on board ships, trains, aircraft, coaches or buses;
(h) bags used to contain purchases made in an area designated by the Secretary of State as a security restricted area under section 11A of the Aviation Security Act 1982 ;
(i) mail order dispatch and courier bags;
(j) bags which—
(i) are made wholly from paper;
(ii) have maximum dimensions of 175 mm (width) x 260 mm (height);
(iii) do not have a gusset; and
(iv) do not have a handle;
(k) bags which—
(i) are made wholly or mainly from plastic;
(ii) have maximum dimensions of 125 mm (width) x 125 mm (height);
(iii) do not have a gusset; and
(iv) do not have a handle;
(l) bags which—
(i) are made wholly from paper;
(ii) have maximum dimensions of 80 mm (width) x 50 mm (gusset width) x 155 mm (height); and
(iii) do not have a handle;
(m) gusseted liners used to line or cover boxes, crates or other containers of a similar nature;
(n) bags used solely to contain live aquatic creatures in water;
(o) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(p) subject to sub-paragraph (1A), bags intended to be used solely for the purpose of carrying goods purchased—
(i) for delivery as part of a grocery delivery service; or
(ii) for collection as part of a service that provides for collection of groceries.
(1A) Bags falling within paragraph (p) of sub-paragraph (1) are exempted from the charge under regulation 6 only until midnight on 31 December 2020.
(2) The specified categories are—
(a) medicinal products or listed appliances sold in accordance with a prescription issued by a registered medical practitioner, a dentist, a supplementary prescriber, a nurse independent prescriber, an independent nurse prescriber, an optometrist independent prescriber, a pharmacist independent prescriber, a physiotherapist independent prescriber, a podiatrist or a chiropodist independent prescriber , a therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber , a paramedic independent prescriber or an EEA health professional;
(b) where sold ...otherwise than in accordance with paragraph (a), pharmacy medicine.
(3) In this paragraph—
“dentist” (“deintydd”) means a person registered in the dentists register kept under section 14 of the Dentists Act 1984 ;
“EEA health professional” (“proffesiynolyn iechyd yr AEE”) has the meaning given in regulation 213(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012;
“independent nurse prescriber” (“nyrs sy'n rhagnodi'n annibynnol”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020;
“listed appliances” (“cyfarpar rhestredig”) means listed appliances within the meaning of any of the following—
(a)section 80 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 ;
(b)article 63 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 ;
(c)section 27 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 ;
(d)section 126 of the National Health Service Act 2006 ;
“medicinal product” (“cynnyrch meddyginiaethol”) has the meaning given in section 130 of the Medicines Act 1968;
“paramedic independent prescriber” (“parafeddyg-ragnodydd annibynnol”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020;
“pharmacy medicine” (“meddyginiaeth fferyllol”) has the meaning given in regulation 5(5) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012;
“physiotherapist independent prescriber” (“ffisiotherapydd-ragnodydd annibynnol”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020;
“podiatrist or chiropodist independent prescriber” (“podiatrydd-ragnodydd neu giropodydd-ragnodydd annibynnol”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020;
“prescription only medicine” (“meddyginiaeth drwy bresgripsiwn yn unig”) has the meaning given in regulation 5(3) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012;
“supplementary prescriber” (“rhagnodydd atodol”), “nurse independent prescriber” (“nyrs-ragnodydd annibynnol”), “optometrist independent prescriber” (“optometrydd-ragnodydd annibynnol”) and “pharmacist independent prescriber” (“fferyllydd-ragnodydd annibynnol”) each have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in regulation 8(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012;
“therapeutic radiographer independent prescriber” (“radiograffydd therapiwtig-ragnodydd annibynnol”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020;
“unpackaged” (“heb ei becynnu”) means wholly or partly unwrapped.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2010/2880/schedule/1/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/single-use-carrier-bags-charge-wales-regulations-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-1
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