{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-batteries-and-accumulators-regulations-2009/regulation-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-batteries-and-accumulators-regulations-2009/regulation-51.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/890",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-batteries-and-accumulators-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/51",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Effect and consequences of approval",
  "text": "(1) Approval of a proposed scheme—\n(a) takes effect on the date of the determination to grant it; and\n(b) remains in force unless that approval is withdrawn under regulation 54.\n(2) The appropriate authority must publish the following details of a battery compliance scheme—\n(a) the name of the scheme; and\n(b) the name and address of the scheme operator.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies if an appropriate authority grants or refuses approval of a proposed scheme further to an application made in reliance on regulation 47(3).\n(4) If this paragraph applies, the appropriate authority must notify each producer who served a notice under regulation 15(2)(b) in respect of the proposed scheme in writing of that determination within 14 days making it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/890/regulation/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:13:11.355365+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."
}