The Environmental Protection (Microbeads) (Wales) Regulations 2018
| Jurisdiction | Wales |
| Citation | SI 2018/760 (W151) |
| Year | 2018 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Microbeads) (Wales) Regulations 2018.(2) These Regulations come into force on the 30 June 2018.(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, but apply in relation to Wales only.In these Regulations— (1) A person who, in the manufacture of any rinse-off personal care product, uses microbeads as an ingredient of that product is guilty of an offence.(2) A person who supplies, or offers to supply, any rinse-off personal care product containing microbeads is guilty of an offence.(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) or (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine.(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (4) , in proceedings for an offence under regulation 3(2) it is a defence for a person (“P”) to show that P took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.served a notice in accordance with paragraph (3) ; orobtained the leave of the court.committed the act or default; orsupplied the information on which P relied; andbe served on the person bringing the proceedings not less than 7 clear days before the hearing of the proceedings.to the steps that P took, and those which might reasonably have been taken, for the purpose of verifying the information; andto whether P had any reason to disbelieve the information.to the act or default of another person; orto reliance on information supplied by another person.(1) Any information relating to an offence under regulation 3 or 10 that is triable by a magistrates’ court may be so tried if it is laid within twelve months after the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to justify the proceedings comes to the knowledge of the prosecutor.(2) No proceedings are to be brought more than three years after the commission of the offence.(1) The regulator may authorise any person to exercise, for an authorised purpose and in accordance with the terms of the authorisation, any of the powers specified in regulation 8 and 9, if that person appears to the regulator suitable to exercise them.(2) An authorisation under paragraph (1) must be in writing.(3) In this Part, “enforcement officer” means a person authorised under paragraph (1) .The Schedule (civil sanctions) has effect for the purpose of the enforcement of an offence under regulation 3(1) , 3(2) or 10(1) . to make such examination and investigation as may in any circumstances be necessary;to require any person whom an enforcement officer has reasonable cause to believe to be able to give any information relevant to any examination or investigation under paragraph (a) above to answer (in the absence of persons other than a person nominated by that person to be present and any persons whom the authorised person may allow to be present) such questions as the enforcement officer thinks fit to ask and to sign a declaration of the truth of their answers; andto require the production of, or where the information is recorded in computerised form, the furnishing of extracts from, any records which it is necessary for the enforcement officer to see for
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