The Construction Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 No. 1359

SCHEDULE 3 U.K. Construction products enforcement rules – Northern Ireland

PART 1 U.K. General

Application and interpretation U.K.

1.—(1) The provisions of this Schedule apply to the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.

(2) In this Schedule—

“enforcement authority” means any district council in Northern Ireland [F1 or the Secretary of State];

“supply” includes offering to supply, agreeing to supply, exposing for supply and possessing for supply, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1(2) inserted (20.7.2022) by The Construction Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/712), regs. 1(3), 3(2)(a)

Commencement Information

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

Competent authority U.K.

2.  The competent authority for the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland for the purposes of the RAMS Regulation, as it applies to construction products, and of the EU Construction Products Regulation is—

(a) the Secretary of State or an enforcement authority; and

(b) such person as the Secretary of State thinks fit to authorise from time to time to be a United Kingdom competent authority, or to perform certain functions of a competent authority, in addition to or in substitution for the Secretary of State.

Commencement Information

I2 Sch. 3 para. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 immediately before the 2019 Regulations come into force, see reg. 1