PART ISCHEME MEMBERSHIP
1. Subject to paragraph 4 below, where a person who is a producer in respect of a year becomes a member of a registered scheme during that year, the recovery and recycling obligations of the producer for that year, referred to in regulation 4(1)(b), shall be performed through the scheme.
2. Subject to paragraph 3 below, where a person who is a producer in respect of a year ceases to be a member of a registered scheme during that year, he shall comply with his recovery and recycling obligations for that year, calculated as provided in regulation 3 and Schedule 2.
3. Where a person who is a producer in respect of a year ceases to be a member of a registered scheme, because the registration of the scheme has been cancelled in accordance with regulation 17, during that year he shall comply with a proportion of his recovery and recycling obligations for the year, calculated as follows—
where—
D is the number of days in the relevant year from the date when such membership ceased, and
E is the number of days in the relevant year.
4. Where a person who is a producer in respect of a year ceases to be a member of one registered scheme (“the first scheme”) and becomes a member of another registered scheme (“the second scheme”) during that year, the first scheme shall not be required to perform any of the producer’s recovery and recycling obligations, referred to in regulation 4(1)(b), and all such obligations shall be performed through the second scheme.