Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (Container Deposit Scheme) Regulations 2019.

These Regulations provide for the Container Deposit Scheme. Under Part 1 it is possible to identify things excluded from the meaning of beverages under the Scheme, and things included in or excluded from meaning of container under the Scheme. Part 1A concerns supply of beverage products and establishes the requirement for container approval, refund mark and barcode. The Part also disciplines the process for obtaining container approval, grant, transfer, register, etc. Part 3, return of containers, identifies eligibility criteria for refund point operators and establishes that the refund point operator of the refund point must accept the container and pay the person the refund amount for the container otherwise he incurs in a civil penalty, some exceptions are identified.