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36.—(1) This regulation applies to a producer of automotive batteries in respect of each compliance period during which the producer places such batteries on the market for the first time in the United Kingdom.
(2) The producer must collect waste automotive batteries free of charge and within a reasonable time from a final holder of automotive batteries when requested by that final holder during the compliance period.
(3) The producer must publish details of how final holders of automotive batteries should request the collection of waste automotive batteries from that producer under paragraph (2)—
(a)on or before 1st December in the year preceding the compliance period; or
(b)if the producer does not place automotive batteries on the market for the first time in the United Kingdom until after that date, within 28 days of the date of such placing on the market.
(4) The details required to be published under paragraph (3) must be published in such a manner as is reasonably likely to bring them to the notice of final holders of automotive batteries.