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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-act-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-17A",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/15",
  "legislation_title": "Consumer Rights Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-rights-act-2015",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/17A",
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  "number": "17A",
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  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to the exercise of a power of an enforcer to give a person a notice under paragraph 14.\n(2) The power is exercisable so as to—\n(a) give the notice to a person who is outside the United Kingdom;\n(b) require the provision of information held outside the United Kingdom.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (4) applies where—\n(a) an enforcer proposes to give a notice to a person outside the United Kingdom by virtue of sub-paragraph (2)(a), and\n(b) the enforcer does not consider that the person is a potential enforcement subject.\n(4) Where this sub-paragraph applies, the power to give the notice is exercisable only if the person has a UK connection.\n(5) A person has a UK connection if the person—\n(a) is a United Kingdom national,\n(b) is an individual who is habitually resident in the United Kingdom,\n(c) is a firm established in the United Kingdom, or\n(d) carries on business in the United Kingdom or by any means directs activities in the course of carrying on a business to consumers in the United Kingdom.\n(6) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)(b) a person (P) is a “potential enforcement subject”, in relation to a notice given by an enforcer to P by virtue of this paragraph, if the notice is given for the purposes of enabling the enforcer—\n(a) to exercise, or consider whether to exercise, a function mentioned in paragraph 13(2), (3), (7)(a) or (9)(b) in relation to P;\n(b) to ascertain whether P has breached any legislation mentioned in paragraph 13(4);\n(c) to ascertain whether P has complied with, or is complying with, an injunction or interdict mentioned in paragraph 13(7)(b);\n(d) to determine whether to make an order of a kind mentioned in paragraph 13(9)(a) in respect of, or in relation to, P.\n(7) In sub-paragraph (5)(a) “United Kingdom national” means—\n(a) a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British National (Overseas) or a British Overseas citizen;\n(b) a person who is a British subject under the British Nationality Act 1981;\n(c) a British protection person within the meaning of that Act.\n(8) For the purposes of sub-paragraph(5)(c), a firm is “established in the United Kingdom” if—\n(a) it is incorporated or formed under the law of a part of the United Kingdom, or\n(b) it is administered under arrangements governed by the law of a part of the United Kingdom.\n(9) References in this paragraph to an enforcer include an officer of an enforcer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 17A and cross-heading inserted (6.4.2025) by Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (c. 13), s. 339(1), Sch. 17 para. 3 (with Sch. 19); S.I. 2025/272, reg. 2(1)(8)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:53.853097+00:00"
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  "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."
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