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Climate Change Act 2008

Section 77 and Schedule 6: Charges for single use carrier bags

366.This section introduces Schedule 6 and allows for the making of regulations about charges for single-use carrier bags.

367.Subsection (3) defines who is the relevant national authority for the purposes of making regulations under the Schedule; this is the Secretary of State in relation to England, the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales and the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland in relation to Northern Ireland.

368.Subsection (4) sets out the circumstances in which the affirmative procedure applies to the making of regulations (that is, where the first set of regulations is made by the relevant national authority under the Schedule, where the regulations contain provisions imposing or providing for the imposition of new civil sanctions, where the regulations increase the maximum amount of a monetary penalty or change the basis on which it is to be determined and where the regulations amend or repeal primary legislation). Otherwise, regulations under the Schedule are subject to the negative resolution procedure.

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