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3(1)A deposit scheme may impose requirements on a scheme collector in connection with the scheme, including requirements—
(a)to pay a person who provides a deposit item a refund in accordance with the scheme;
(b)to pay a person who provides a deposit item under another deposit scheme an amount determined in accordance with the scheme (and the scheme may provide for that amount to be determined by reference to the other deposit scheme);
(c)to pay a person who provides articles or packaging that are the subject of a Scottish deposit and return scheme an amount determined in accordance with the scheme (and the scheme may provide for that amount to be determined by reference to the Scottish deposit and return scheme);
(d)to recycle, re-use, or arrange or facilitate the recycling or re-use of any item provided to them in accordance with the scheme (which may include articles or packaging that are the subject of a Scottish deposit and return scheme);
(e)to otherwise dispose of such items in accordance with the scheme;
(f)where a scheme collector receives any payment in connection with the recycling or disposal of such an item, to retain that amount or to pay it, or a part of it, to a scheme administrator;
(g)as to the retention of any amounts received from scheme suppliers, other scheme collectors or a scheme administrator;
(h)to pay such amounts received to scheme suppliers, other scheme collectors or a scheme administrator;
(i)in connection with securing that a specified proportion of deposit items supplied by scheme suppliers, or by individual scheme suppliers, are returned to scheme collectors;
(j)to keep records in connection with the scheme;
(k)to provide those records or other information in connection with the scheme to a scheme administrator.
(2)A deposit scheme may impose different requirements on different scheme collectors.
(3)In this paragraph “specified” means specified in a deposit scheme.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 8 para. 3 in force at 9.1.2022 for E.W., see s. 147(2)(d)
I2Sch. 8 para. 3 in force at 28.2.2022 for N.I. by S.R. 2022/54, art. 2(1)(f)
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