Part 8 U.K.Enforcement of certain consumer legislation

InformationU.K.

[F1227FRetention of documents and goodsF2U.K.

(1)No documents seized under sections 227A to 227D may be retained for a period of more than three months.

(2)No goods seized under sections 227A to 227D may be retained for a period of more than three months unless they are reasonably required in connection with the exercise of any function of a CPC enforcer under this Part.

(3)Where goods are so required they may be retained for as long as they are so required.]

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F2Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]