Products (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

L.N. 499 of 2021

SUPPLIES AND SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 117)

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Restrictions on Placing on the Market of Single-Use Plastic

Products (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 3 of the

Supplies and Services Act and by articles 54 and 55 of the

Environment Protection Act, the Minister responsible for Commerce

and the Minister for the Environment, Climate Change, and Planning,

after consultation with the Environment and Resources Authority, have

made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Restrictions on

commencement.

Placing on the Market of Single-Use Plastic Products (Amendment)

Regulations, 2021 and these regulations shall be read and construed as

one with the Restrictions on Placing on the Market of Single-Use

Plastic Products Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

(2) These regulations shall come into force within two months

from their publication in the Gazette.

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 4 of the principal

regulations, the words "shall be prohibited." shall be substituted by the

words "shall be prohibited:" and immediately thereafter there shall be

added the following new proviso

"Provided that the distribution, consumption or use in

the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for

payment or free of charge, of the single-use plastic products

listed in Part A of the Schedule and products made from oxo-

degradable plastic shall be prohibited.".

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