{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/988",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Establishment of waste prevention programmes",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate authority must ... —\n(a) evaluate the usefulness of the waste prevention measures set out as examples in Annex IV of the Waste Framework Directive and any other such measures the authority thinks fit; and\n(b) establish one or more programmes of waste prevention measures (each a “waste prevention programme”).\n(2) A programme established before the coming into force of these Regulations may be a waste prevention programme.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) omitted (1.10.2020) by virtue of The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/904), regs. 1(1), 15(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(3) omitted (1.10.2020) by virtue of The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/904), regs. 1(1), 15(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/988/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:10:22.497788+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."
}