{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-regulations-2013/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-regulations-2013/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Exemptions",
  "text": "These Regulations do not apply to EEE which is—\n(a) necessary for the protection of the essential interests of the security of the United Kingdom, including arms, munitions and war material intended for specifically military purposes;\n(b) specifically designed and installed as part of another type of equipment that is excluded from or does not fall within the scope of these Regulations, which can fulfil its function only if it is part of that equipment;\n(c) filament bulbs.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/188), regs. 1(2)(b), 19(4)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1540, regs. 1(2), 11(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/188), regs. 1(2)(b), 19(4)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1540, regs. 1(2), 11(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}