{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/422",
  "legislation_title": "Biocidal Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Frame-formulations",
  "text": "(1) At the same time the Executive grants an authorisation in respect of a biocidal product under regulation 9 or 13, or grants a registration in respect of a biocidal product under regulation 10 or 14—\n(a) it shall, when requested to do so by the applicant for that authorisation or that registration; or\n(b) it may, without being requested to do so,\nissue a frame-formulation which includes that biocidal product and it shall communicate that frame-formulation to that applicant.\n(2) Where an application is made under regulation 9, 10, 13 or 14 in respect of a biocidal product within an issued frame-formulation, the Executive shall take that issued frame-formulation into account in evaluating the dossiers submitted with the application in question.\n(3) Where a person makes an application for an authorisation under regulation 9 or 13 and that person has a letter of access in respect of the information relating to the biocidal products within an issued frame-formulation, the Executive shall decide whether or not to grant the authorisation within 60 days of its receiving the application.\n(4) In this regulation, “issued frame-formulation” means a frame-formulation issued by the Executive in accordance with paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in operation at 16.1.2002, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/422",
      "affecting_title": "Biocidal Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/422/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:09:36.641699+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."
}