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6(1)If the Secretary of State proposes to serve a notice to warn on any person in respect of any goods, the Secretary of State, before he serves the notice, shall serve on that person a notification which—U.K.
(a)contains a draft of the proposed notice;
(b)states that the Secretary of State proposes to serve a notice in the form of the draft on that person;
(c)states that the Secretary of State considers that the goods described in the draft are unsafe;
(d)sets out the reasons why the Secretary of State considers that those goods are unsafe; and
(e)states that that person may make representations to the Secretary of State for the purpose of establishing that the goods are safe if, before the end of the period of fourteen days beginning with the day on which the notification is served, he informs the Secretary of State—
(i)of his intention to make representations; and
(ii)whether the representations will be made only in writing or both in writing and orally.
(2)Where the Secretary of State has served a notification containing a draft of a proposed notice to warn on any person, he shall not serve a notice to warn on that person in respect of the goods to which the proposed notice relates unless—
(a)the period of fourteen days beginning with the day on which the notification was served expires without the Secretary of State being informed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(e) above;
(b)the period of twenty-eight days beginning with that day expires without any written representations being made by that person to the Secretary of State about the proposed notice; or
(c)the Secretary of State has considered a report about the proposed notice by a person appointed under paragraph 7(1) below.
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