PART 2Single-use plastic products and single-use expanded polystyrene products

Offence: single-use plastic straws5.

(1)

A person who, in the course of a business, supplies, offers to supply, or has in their possession for supply, to an end-user, a single-use plastic straw commits an offence.

(2)

Paragraph (1) is subject to the exemptions in regulations 6 to 11.

(3)

A person who commits an offence under paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.