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Building Safety Act 2022, Paragraph 2 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 07 December 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

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2(1)Construction products regulations may—

(a)prohibit the marketing or supply of construction products which are not safe products;

(b)impose other requirements for the purpose of securing that construction products which are not safe products are not marketed or supplied;

(c)impose requirements in relation to the marketing or supply of construction products which are safe products.

(2)For the purposes of this paragraph a construction product is a “safe product” if, under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use, and taking into account any matters specified for the purposes of this paragraph by construction products regulations—

(a)the product does not present any risk to the health or safety of persons, or

(b)if it does, the risk is as low as it can be compatibly with using the product.

(3)In this paragraph

  • use” includes storage, transportation or packaging;

  • reasonably foreseeable conditions” include reasonably foreseeable circumstances in which the construction product might come under stress (for example, a fire).

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 11 para. 2 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 170(3)(d)

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