Regulation 9 Duty to be a member of a battery compliance scheme
A person must be a member of a battery compliance scheme in respect of any compliance period during which that person is a producer of portable batteries.
The duty in paragraph (1) does not apply to a small producer.
A producer who is required by paragraph (1) to be a member of a battery compliance scheme must join a scheme—
on or before 15th October in the year before the relevant compliance period; or
if the producer does not place portable batteries on the market for the first time in the United Kingdom until after that date, within 28 days of the date of such placing on the market.
A producer may not be a member of more than one battery compliance scheme in respect of a compliance period unless the producer was a member of a scheme whose approval was withdrawn under regulation 54 during that compliance period.