The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Cancellation of registration of a scheme

17.—(1) Subject to the right of appeal under Part IV, the Department may cancel the registration with it of a scheme where—

(a) the information or the fee required by regulation 14 are not provided; or

(b) it appears to the Department that—

(i) any of the conditions referred to in regulation 13 has been broken,

(ii) the operator knowingly supplied false information in connection with the application for registration, or with compliance with the conditions referred to in regulation 13, or with regulation 14, or

(iii) information provided pursuant to regulation 14 was not provided in accordance with regulation 12(7).

(2) The Department shall cancel the registration with it of a scheme if the Secretary of State gives notice under regulation 31(10) that he has ceased to be satisfied that the scheme meets the requirements of competition scrutiny.

(3) Before the cancellation of a registration, the Department shall serve on the operator of the scheme written notice of—

(a) its decision under paragraph (1) or (2) to cancel the registration;

(b) the reasons for the decision;

(c) where the decision is made under paragraph (1), the right of appeal under Part IV; and

(d) the date when cancellation will take effect, not being earlier than—

(i) in the case of cancellation under paragraph (1), the expiration of the time limit for an appeal against the notice provided for in paragraph 2 of Schedule 5, or

(ii) in the case of cancellation under paragraph (2), five days from the date of the notice.