The Single Use Carrier Bags Charges (England) (Amendment) Order 2020

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2020-03-20
State In force
Department Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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Made: at 9.43 a.m. on 20th March 2020

Laid before Parliament: at 4.00 p.m. on 20th March 2020

Coming into force: 21st March 2020

The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 90(3) and (5) of, and Schedule 6 to, the Climate Change Act 2008[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

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Amendment to the Single Use Carrier Bags Charges (England) Order 2015

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The Single Use Carrier Bags Charges (England) Order 2015[^f00002] is amended in accordance with article 3.

Amendment of Schedule 2

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In Schedule 2, in paragraph 2—

(j) Online grocery delivery bag A bag intended to be used solely to carry goods purchased for home delivery as part of an online grocery delivery service.

(1A) Online grocery delivery bags are excluded bags from 21st March to 21st September 2020 only.

Signed

Rebecca Pow — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — At 9.43 a.m. on 20th March 2020

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Single Use Carrier Bags Charges (England) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/776).

Article 3 amends the list of “excluded bags” so that the obligation to charge for a single use carrier bag does not apply to bags intended to be used solely to carry goods purchased for home delivery as part of an online grocery delivery service. Such bags would be excluded from the obligation to charge from 21st March to 21st September 2020 only.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2008 c. 27. The Secretary of State is “the relevant national authority” in relation to England for the purposes of Schedule 6, see section 77(3).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2015/776.

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