{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aerosol-dispensers-regulations-2009/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aerosol-dispensers-regulations-2009/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2824",
  "legislation_title": "The Aerosol Dispensers Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aerosol-dispensers-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Prohibition of sale or supply of non-compliant marked aerosol dispensers",
  "text": "A person shall not supply or have in his possession for supply—\n(a) an aerosol dispenser which—\n(i) is marked with the UK marking where all the requirements referred to in regulation 3 relating to that aerosol dispenser are not complied with;\n(ia) has a label affixed to it, or a document accompanying it, which is marked with the UK marking, where—\n(aa) the requirements of regulation 3 are not complied with; or\n(bb) the requirements of regulation 3 are complied with but the period referred to in regulation 3(1A) has elapsed; or\n(ii) is marked with the symbol “3” (inverted epsilon) where either—\n(aa) all the requirements of regulation 5A(3) are not complied with; or\n(bb) all the requirements of regulation 5B are not complied with; or\n(b) an aerosol dispenser which—\n(i) is marked with a mark so closely resembling the UK marking or the symbol “3” (inverted epsilon) as to be likely to deceive; or\n(ii) has a label affixed to it or a document accompanying it which is marked with a mark so closely resembling the UK marking as to be likely to deceive.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(a) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 13 para. 6(a) (with reg. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2 and S.I. 2020/1460, reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 8(4)(a)-(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5(b) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 13 para. 6(b) (with reg. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2 and S.I. 2020/1460, reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 8(4)(d)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2824/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:03:51.158826+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}