The Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (Scotland) Regulations 2023

Approved persons S

24.—(1) SEPA may approve a person listed in paragraph (2) for the purposes of—

(a) verifying information reported by a producer to SEPA under regulation 17(1),

(b) verifying information provided by a producer to the operator of a scheme under regulation 19(2)(a).

(2) The persons listed are, where the producer—

(a) is an individual, that individual,

(b) is a partnership, a partner,

[F1 (ba) is a limited liability partnership, a member of that partnership,]

(c) is a body corporate registered in the United Kingdom, a director or company secretary of that company,

(d) is an unincorporated association, an individual who has control or management of that association,

(e) is a body corporate which does not have a registered office in the United Kingdom, an individual who has control or management of the producer.

(3) Subject to regulation 25, SEPA may approve the delegation by an approved person of the person’s functions to any other person.

(4) An approved person who has delegated functions under paragraph (3) may continue to perform those functions.

(5) For the purposes of these Regulations, an act of a delegate performing the functions of an approved person on that person’s behalf is to be treated as an act of the approved person.

(6) In this regulation, and in regulation 25, “functions” means the functions referred to in paragraph (1)(a) and (b).

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 24(2)(ba) inserted (30.6.2023) by The Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/160), regs. 1, 9

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 24 in force at 28.2.2023, see reg. 1