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First suppliers: requirement to give informationU.K.

13.—(1) Any person to whom paragraph (3) below applies shall give to an enforcement authority or any of its officers such information as it or he may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling the authority to enforce any of the requirements of these Regulations relating to any furniture other than mattresses, bed-bases, pillows and cushions.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) above, information may be required to be given, in accordance with that paragraph, relating to any of the following matters, that is to say–

(a)the results of any test prescribed by these Regulations carried out on the furniture in question or any of its components;

(b)the means by which those results are attributed to furniture or components of a particular description or batch;

(c)the correspondence of any records with labels, batch numbers of marks appearing on or relating to any goods.

(3) This paragraph applies to any manufacturer or importer who supplies or has supplied within the period of five years (or, if shorter, so much of that period as falls after 1st November 1988) immediately prior to his being required to give the information in question any furniture specified in paragraph (1) above.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 13 in force at 1.11.1988 for specified purposes, 1.3.1989 for specified purposes and 1.3.1990 otherwise, see reg. 1(2)(b)(f)(h)(i)