Offences made under the Schedule 5 to, the Environment Act 2021
3 statutory instruments made under this Act create 22 criminal offences between them.
These are offences created by secondary legislation made under the Act — not the offences in the Act itself. An Act that creates a power to make regulations, and regulations that then create offences, is the ordinary route by which most of the criminal law is made, and it is the route this report follows.
Instruments made under it
- The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024 2024 · 20 offences
- The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 2025 · 1 offence
- The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment, etc.) Regulations 2025 2025 · 1 offence