{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-substances-hazardous-to-health-regulations-2002/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-substances-hazardous-to-health-regulations-2002/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2677",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-substances-hazardous-to-health-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibitions relating to certain substances",
  "text": "(1) Those substances described in Column 1 of Schedule 2 are prohibited to the extent set out in the corresponding entry in Column 2 of that Schedule.\n(2) The importation into the United Kingdom, other than from a member State, of the following substances and articles is prohibited, namely—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) matches made with white phosphorus,\nand a contravention of this paragraph shall be punishable under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 and not as a contravention of a health and safety regulation.\n(3) A person shall not supply during the course of or for use at work a substance or article specified in paragraph (2).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Health and Safety (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1370), regs. 1(1), 7(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2)(a) omitted (1.12.2008) by virtue of The REACH Enforcement Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2852), reg. 1, Sch. 10 Pt. 3 para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(4) revoked (1.6.2009) by The REACH Enforcement Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2852), Sch. 10 Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1979 c. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2677/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:42:48.271696+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."
}