Schedule 8, paragraph 1

The relevant national authority may by regulations establish deposit schemes for any of the following purposes— sustaining, promoting or securing an increase in the recycling or reuse of materials; reducing the incidence of littering or fly-tipping. A deposit scheme is a scheme under which— a person supplied with a deposit item by a scheme supplier pays the supplier an amount (a “deposit”), and a person who provides a deposit item to a scheme collector is entitled to be paid an amount (a “refund”) in respect of that item by the collector. A “deposit item” is a specified item that is supplied— by way of sale, or in connection with the supply of goods or services. A deposit scheme may make provision about the circumstances in which a deposit or refund is to be paid in respect of a deposit item. A person may be specified— as a scheme supplier if the person is a supplier or producer of deposit items; as a scheme collector if the person is a supplier or producer of deposit items or is a scheme administrator (see paragraph 4). A deposit scheme may provide that the amount of the deposit or refund in respect of a deposit item is— an amount specified, an amount determined and published by the relevant national authority in accordance with the scheme, or an amount determined by a scheme administrator in accordance with the scheme. In this paragraph “specified” means specified or described in a deposit scheme.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30