Product Eco-responsibility (Regulated Electrical Equipment) Regulation
Explanatory Note
L.N. 143 of 2017
Paragraph 1
B4361
Explanatory Note
The Promotion of Recycling and Proper Disposal (Electrical Equipment and Electronic Equipment) (Amendment) Ordinance 2016 (3 of 2016) amends, among other legislation, the Product Eco-responsibility Ordinance (Cap. 603) (parent Ordinance) to implement a mandatory producer responsibility scheme on certain electrical equipment and electronic equipment. The new section 44 of the parent Ordinance empowers the Secretary for the Environment to make regulations for the implementation of the scheme. This Regulation is a regulation made under that section.
2. This Regulation provides for—
- (a) matters related to registered suppliers, including the registration of suppliers, provision of recycling labels, submission of returns, keeping of records and documents, submission of audit reports, and payment of recycling levies;
- (b) matters related to sellers, including the provision of recycling labels and receipts, endorsement of and change to removal service plans, and requests for removal services; and
- (c) the better carrying out of the provisions and purposes of the parent Ordinance.
