Transitional provision
3.—(1) During the transitional period, where the appropriate authority is the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, regulation 79 of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013 (approval of schemes) is to be read as if for paragraph (3) there were substituted—
“(3) Subject to paragraph (3A), the appropriate authority must issue an invoice for payment of the annual producer charge referred to in regulation 59 to each operator of a scheme that it has approved under regulation 55.
(3A) In relation to the case of a scheme member whose registered office or, where the scheme member does not have a registered office, principal place of business, is in England or outside the United Kingdom—
(a)the annual producer charge to be included in the invoice issued in accordance with paragraph (3) is the amount that would apply if the scheme member had its registered office or, as the case may be, principal place of business, in Scotland; and
(b)the Environment Agency must issue an invoice for payment of the annual producer charge referred to in regulation 59, less the amount invoiced under sub-paragraph (a).”.
(2) In this regulation the “transitional period” means the period beginning on the day these Regulations come into force and ending on 31st October 2019.