The Conflict Minerals (Compliance) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 No. 1664

SCHEDULE N.I. Civil sanctions

PART 1 N.I. Compliance notices

Provisional notices N.I.

2.—(1) Where the Secretary of State considers that it is appropriate to issue a compliance notice under paragraph 1(1), the Secretary of State must first by notice (a “provisional notice”) inform the relevant Union importer of the—

(a) grounds for the proposed compliance notice;

(b) requirements that the compliance notice would contain; and the

(c) Union importer's right to make representations to the Secretary of State under [F1 sub-paragraph] (2).

(2) A Union importer may within 28 days beginning on the day a provisional notice issued under [F2 sub-paragraph] (1) is served make written representations to the Secretary of State in relation to the proposed imposition of a compliance notice.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Sch. para. 2(1)(c) substituted (8.3.2021) by The Conflict Minerals (Compliance) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/145), regs. 1(1), 7(a)(ii)

F2 Word in Sch. para. 2(2) substituted (8.3.2021) by The Conflict Minerals (Compliance) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/145), regs. 1(1), 7(a)(ii)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. para. 2 in force at 1.1.2021, see reg. 1(1)