Schedule 8: Deposit schemes Deposit scheme administrators
Paragraph 4(1) provides that regulations may appoint or make provision for the appointment of a deposit scheme administrator.
	Sub-paragraph (2) sets out the functions that regulations may confer on the scheme administrator. These include:
the registration of scheme suppliers and scheme collectors;
charging registration fees;
giving directions to the scheme suppliers and scheme collectors in relation to the requirements placed on them under the deposit scheme;
ensuring a proportion of deposit items are returned to scheme collectors;
arranging for the recycling of any items returned, or disposing of those items in accordance with the scheme;
making payments to scheme collectors to reimburse them for any refunded deposits they have paid out;
the retention of amounts that they have received under the deposit scheme, including determining how these amounts should be utilised;
payments to other scheme administrators; and
keeping records and providing these records to the relevant national authority.
	Sub-paragraph (3) specifies that, where there is more than one scheme administrator, different functions may be conferred on different scheme administrators by a deposit scheme.
	Sub-paragraph (4) provides that regulations may confer a power on the relevant national authority to give directions to a scheme administrator as to how the scheme administrator should exercise their functions under the scheme.
	Sub-paragraph (5) defines the word "specified" for this paragraph.