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55Liability to register: producers and importers

(1)A person (P) who—

(a)produces finished plastic packaging components, or

(b)on whose behalf finished plastic packaging components are imported,

becomes liable to be registered on a given day if subsection (2) applies in relation to P on that day.

(2)This subsection applies—

(a)on any day, where there are reasonable grounds for believing that the amount of finished plastic packaging components that will be produced by, or imported on behalf of, P within the period of 30 days beginning with that day will equal or exceed 10 metric tonnes, or

(b)on the first day of any calendar month, where the amount of finished plastic packaging components produced by, or imported on behalf of, P over the 12 months ending with the day before that day equals or exceeds 10 metric tonnes.

(3)Finished plastic packaging components to which section 52(1) or (3) applies are not to be taken into account for the purposes of subsection (2).

(4)In the application of subsection (2)(b) to the first day of a month falling within the year beginning with 1 April 2022, that paragraph has effect as if for “over the 12 months” there were substituted “during the period beginning with 1 April 2022 and”.

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