{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-products-regulations-2013/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-products-regulations-2013/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1387",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction Products Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-products-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Power to obtain information",
  "text": "(1) If the Secretary of State considers that, for the purpose of deciding whether—\n(a) to serve, vary or revoke a prohibition notice; or\n(b) to serve or revoke a notice to warn,\ninformation is required which another person is likely to be able to provide, the Secretary of State may serve on the other person a notice under this regulation.\n(2) A notice served on any person under this regulation may require that person—\n(a) to provide to the Secretary of State such information as is specified in the notice, within a period so specified;\n(b) to produce such records as are specified in the notice at a time and place so specified and to permit a person appointed by the Secretary of State for the purpose to take copies of the records at that time and place.\n(3) A person shall be guilty of an offence if the person—\n(a) fails, without reasonable cause, to comply with a notice served on that person under this regulation; or\n(b) in purporting to comply with a requirement which by virtue of paragraph (2)(a) is contained in such a notice—\n(i) provides information which the person knows is false in a material particular, or\n(ii) recklessly provides information which is false in a material particular.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (3) shall—\n(a) in the case of an offence under sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale;\n(b) in the case of an offence under sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph be liable—\n(i) on conviction on indictment, to a fine,\n(ii) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1387/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:54.921234+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."
}