Part 5Other provisions
Charges for single use carrier bags
77Charges for single use carrier bags
1
Schedule 6 makes provision about charges for single use carrier bags.
2
In that Schedule—
Part 1 confers power on the relevant national authority to make regulations about charges for single use carrier bags;
Part 2 makes provision about civil sanctions;
Part 3 makes provision about the procedures applying to regulations under the Schedule.
3
In that Schedule “the relevant national authority” means—
a
the Secretary of State in relation to England;
b
the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales;
c
the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland in relation to Northern Ireland.
4
Regulations under that Schedule are subject to affirmative resolution procedure if—
a
they are the first regulations to be made by the relevant national authority in question under the Schedule,
b
they contain provision imposing or providing for the imposition of new civil sanctions,
c
they increase the amount or maximum amount of a monetary penalty or change the basis on which such an amount or maximum is to be determined, or
d
they amend or repeal a provision of an enactment contained in primary legislation.
5
Otherwise regulations under that Schedule are subject to negative resolution procedure.