(1)An officer of Revenue and Customs may seize an imported medical device and detain it for not more than two working days in order to facilitate the exercise by an enforcement authority or an officer of an enforcement authority of a function under—
(a)this Part,
(b)a medical devices provision, or
(c)Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
(2)A device seized and detained under this section must be dealt with during the period of its detention in such manner as the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs may direct.
(3)In subsection (1), the reference to two working days is a reference to a period of 48 hours calculated from the time when the device in question is seized but disregarding so much of any period as falls on a Saturday or Sunday or on Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in the part of the United Kingdom where the device is seized.
Commencement Information
I1S. 36 in force at 26.5.2021 by S.I. 2021/610, reg. 2(a)