{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-regulations-2013/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-regulations-2013/regulation-52.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/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Final holder right of return: WEEE from private households",
  "text": "(1) A final holder may return WEEE from private households free of charge to the system that has been set up by an operator of a scheme that has been approved under regulation 55 for the purposes of complying with that operator of a scheme’s obligations in relation to WEEE from private households under regulation 28.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), “system” means a system that an operator of a scheme has set up—\n(a) in accordance with regulations 30, 31 and 32; and\n(b) under regulation 50.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation, “final holder” means a person who decides to discard EEE that becomes WEEE from private households and who is not able for any reason to return that WEEE free of charge to a designated collection facility.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 52(3) substituted (25.12.2015) by The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1968), regs. 1, 2(23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 52 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/52",
    "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."
}