The Construction Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Forfeiture U.K.

9.—(1) An enforcement authority may apply under this paragraph for an order for the forfeiture of any construction products on any of the grounds on which the enforcement authority may serve a suspension notice under paragraph 6(1) in relation to the products.

(2) An application under this paragraph may be made—

(a) where proceedings have been brought in a magistrates’ court for an offence in relation to some or any of the products under any provision of this Part of this Schedule, to that court;

(b) where an application with respect to some or all of the products has been made to a magistrates’ court under paragraph 8 (suspension notices: appeals) or under paragraph 22 (appeals against detention of products), to that court; and

(c) in any other case by way of complaint to a magistrates’ court.

(3) On an application under this paragraph the court may make an order for the forfeiture of any products only if it is satisfied that one or more of the grounds described in sub-paragraph (1) is made out in relation to the products.

(4) A court may infer for the purposes of this paragraph that one or more of the grounds described in sub-paragraph (1) is made out in relation to any products if it is satisfied that one or more of those grounds is made out in relation to products which are representative of those products (whether by reason of being of the same design or part of the same consignment or batch or otherwise).

(5) Any person aggrieved by an order made under this paragraph by a magistrates’ court in Northern Ireland, or by a decision of such a court not to make such an order, may appeal against that order or decision to the county court, and an order so made may contain such provision as appears to the court to be appropriate for delaying the coming into force of the order pending the making and determination of any appeal (including any application under Article 146 of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (cases stated by magistrates’ courts)).

(6) Subject to sub-paragraph (7), where any products are forfeited under this paragraph they shall be destroyed in accordance with such directions as the court may give.

(7) On making an order under this paragraph a magistrates’ court may, if it considers it appropriate to do so, direct that the products to which the order relates shall (instead of being destroyed) be released to such person as the court may specify on condition that the person—

(a) does not supply those products to any person otherwise than—

(i) to a person who carries on a business of buying products of the same description as those products and repairing or reconditioning them, or

(ii) as scrap (that is to say, for the value of materials included in the products rather than for the value of the products themselves); and

(b) complies with any order to pay costs or expenses (including any order under paragraph 24 (recovery of expenses)) which has been made against that person in the proceedings for the order for forfeiture.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 3 para. 9 in force at 31.12.2020 immediately before the 2019 Regulations come into force, see reg. 1