{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/batteries-and-accumulators-containing-dangerous-substances-regulations-1994/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/batteries-and-accumulators-containing-dangerous-substances-regulations-1994/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/232",
  "legislation_title": "The Batteries and Accumulators (Containing Dangerous Substances) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/batteries-and-accumulators-containing-dangerous-substances-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "(1) If the Secretary of State is notified that a battery or accumulator has not been marked in accordance with regulation 4 above, the Secretary of State may give notice—\n(a) in relation to a battery or accumulator which has been manufactured in Great Britain, to the manufacturer thereof; or\n(b) in the case where the manufacturer thereof is not established in Great Britain and the battery or accumulator is being marketed in Great Britain to—\n(i) the manufacturer’s authorised representative established in Great Britain; or\n(ii) the person in Great Britain responsible for placing that battery or accumulator on the market,\nspecifying the matters mentioned in paragraph (3) below.\n(2) If the Secretary of State is notified that an appliance or an excluded appliance, as the case may be, does not meet the requirements of regulation 5 above which apply to it, the Secretary of State may give notice to the manufacturer thereof specifying the matters mentioned in paragraph (3) below.\n(3) The following matters shall be specified in a notice given under paragraph (1) or (2) of this regulation—\n(a) the respects in which—\n(i) that battery or accumulator has not been marked in accordance with regulation 4 above; or\n(ii) that appliance or excluded appliance, as the case may be, does not meet the requirements of regulation 5 above which apply to it; and\n(b) that within the period specified in the notice the person to whom it is given must take steps to ensure that—\n(i) in the case of a battery or accumulator which has not been marked in accordance with regulation 4 above, any battery or accumulator of the same type which—\n(aa) in relation to a notice under paragraph (1)(a) above, is placed on the market in the Community; or\n(bb) in relation to a notice under paragraph (1)(b) above, is placed on the market in Great Britain,\nby that person is so marked;\n(ii) in the case of an appliance which has not been manufactured in accordance with the requirements of regulation 5(1) above, any appliance of the same type which is placed on the market in the Community by that person is so manufactured; or\n(iii) in the case of an excluded appliance which does not meet the requirements of regulation 5(2) above, any excluded appliance of the same type which is placed on the market in the Community by that person does so meet those requirements.\n(4) A notice under this regulation shall specify the date on which it is to take effect, the grounds for the decision to serve a notice and the period within which the necessary steps must be taken.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/232/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:41:49.290322+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."
}