WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING ACT 2011 - SECT 96
Expiry of accredited product stewardship scheme
WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING ACT 2011 - SECT 96
Expiry of accredited product stewardship scheme
96 Expiry of accredited product stewardship scheme
(1) The accreditation of an accredited product stewardship scheme expires on
the earlier of the following—
(a) the date stated in the scheme as the date
the scheme ends;
(b) 5 years after the accreditation of the scheme.
(2)
However, the accreditation of an accredited product stewardship scheme (
"scheme A" ) continues in force, as provided for in subsection (3) , after the
date (the
"expiry date" ) it would otherwise end if—
(a) the scheme manager for
scheme A has, not later than 6 months before scheme A’s accreditation was
due to end, applied to the chief executive for the accreditation of a new
voluntary product stewardship scheme (
"scheme B" ) to replace scheme A; and
(b) the chief executive has not
decided, on or before the expiry date, whether scheme B should be accredited.
(3) Scheme A’s accreditation continues in force until—
(a) the
accreditation of scheme B takes effect, either in its form as first proposed
or as subsequently changed in the application process; or
(b) the application
process for scheme B’s accreditation has been completed, including, for
example, the completion of any review about the chief executive’s decision
on the proposed accreditation, and scheme B is not accredited.