{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-regulations-2013/regulation-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-regulations-2013/regulation-48.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/3113",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/48",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Obligation to optimise the reuse and recycling of WEEE",
  "text": "Any person who collects or transports WEEE in connection with the carrying out of any obligation under regulations 28 or 29 must ensure that all such WEEE is collected and transported in a way that optimises reuse and recycling of that equipment or of components of that equipment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 48 substituted (25.7.2014) by The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1771), regs. 1(b), 3(2), Sch. 1 para. 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 48 in force at 1.1.2014, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3113/regulation/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:32:34.822986+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."
}