{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cosmetic-products-enforcement-regulations-2013/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cosmetic-products-enforcement-regulations-2013/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1478",
  "legislation_title": "The Cosmetic Products Enforcement Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cosmetic-products-enforcement-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any person having an interest in any cosmetic product which is for the time being detained under paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 by an enforcement authority or by an officer of such an authority may apply for an order requiring the goods to be released to him or to another person.\n(2) On an application under this section to the appropriate court (as determined in accordance with regulation 16), an order requiring goods to be released shall be made only if the court is satisfied—\n(a) that proceedings—\n(i) for an offence in respect of a contravention of any provision of the EU Cosmetics Regulation or these Regulations; or\n(ii) for the forfeiture of the goods under regulation 20 or 21,\nhave not been brought or, having been brought, have been concluded without the goods being forfeited; and\n(b) where no such proceedings have been brought, that more than six months have elapsed since the goods were seized.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in regs. 12-15 omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 34 para. 38 (with regs. 2, 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2, 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1478/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:50:51.721836+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."
}