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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/170/made</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2025</dc:title><dc:publisher>King's Printer for Scotland</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2025-06-06</dc:modified><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION</dc:subject>
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<Number>2025 No. 170 (C. 17)</Number>
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<Title>ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION</Title>
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<Title>The Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2025</Title>
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<Text>Made</Text>
<DateText>4th June 2025</DateText>
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<Text>Laid before the Scottish Parliament</Text>
<DateText>6th June 2025</DateText>
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<Text>The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 27(2) of the Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024<FootnoteRef Ref="f00001"/>.</Text>
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<Text>These Regulations may be cited as the Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 1 August 2025.</Text>
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<Text>In these Regulations, “<Term id="term-the-act">the Act</Term>” means the Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024.</Text>
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<Text>1 August 2025 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the table in the schedule (the subject matter of which is described in column 2 of that table).</Text>
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<Text>Where a purpose is specified in column 3 of the table in the schedule in relation to any provision specified in column 1 of the table in the schedule, that provision comes into force on 1 August 2025 only for that purpose.</Text>
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<PersonName>GILLIAN MARTIN</PersonName>
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<AddressLine>St Andrew's House,</AddressLine>
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<Title>PROVISIONS OF THE ACT COMING INTO FORCE ON 1 AUGUST 2025</Title>
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<Reference>Regulation 2</Reference>
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<tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 1</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Circular economy strategy</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"/></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 2</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Consultation on strategy</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"/></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 3</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Publication and laying of strategy</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"/></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 4</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Review of strategy</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"/></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 5</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Reporting on strategy</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"/></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 6</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Circular economy targets</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"/></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 7</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Circular economy targets: monitoring and reporting</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"/></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 8</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Circular economy targets: pre-laying procedure for first regulations</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"/></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 9</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Restrictions on the disposal of unsold consumer goods</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"/></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 12</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Removal of unlawfully deposited waste</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">For the purpose of making regulations only.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 14</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Householder’s duty of care</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">For the purpose of making regulations only.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 15</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Household waste requirements</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">For the purpose of making regulations only.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 18</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Littering from a vehicle</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">For the purpose of making regulations only.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 19</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Powers to search and seize vehicles, etc.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">For the purpose of making regulations only.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 22</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Duty to make information publicly available</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"/></tr></tbody>
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<Text>These Regulations bring provisions of the Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 (“<Term>the Act</Term>”) into force.</Text>
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<Text>Regulation 2(1) brings the provisions listed in the schedule into force on 1 August 2025. Regulation 2(2) provides that where a purpose is specified in the third column of the table in the schedule, the associated provision comes into force for that purpose only.</Text>
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<Text>The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 8 August 2024. Sections 26, 27 and 28 came into force on the following day.</Text>
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<Text>The following provisions of the Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 have been brought into force by commencement regulations made before the date of these Regulations.</Text>
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<tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Section 21</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">4 February 2025</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><Citation xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2025/10" id="c00001" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument" Year="2025" Number="10">S.S.I. 2025/10</Citation></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Sections 10, 11, 13, 23, 24, 25 and the schedule</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">1 April 2025</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><Citation xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2025/10" id="c00002" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument" Year="2025" Number="10">S.S.I. 2025/10</Citation></td></tr></tbody>
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