{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cosmetic-products-enforcement-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cosmetic-products-enforcement-regulations-2013/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“2008 Regulations” means the Cosmetic Products (Safety) Regulations 2008 ;\n“the ... Cosmetics Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on cosmetic products (recast) , as amended from time to time;\n“enforcement authority” means—\n(i)in England and Wales and Scotland, the Secretary of State or a local weights and measures authority within the meaning of section 69 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 ; and\n(ii)in Northern Ireland, any district council;\n“officer”, in relation to an enforcement authority, means a person authorised in writing to assist the authority in carrying out its functions under or for the purposes of the enforcement of the ... Cosmetics Regulation and these Regulations;\n“RAMS” means Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93 .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Other expressions used in these Regulations which are used in the ... Cosmetics Regulation have the same meaning as in the ... Cosmetics Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) 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. 30(a) (with regs. 2, 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2, 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) 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. 30(b) (with regs. 2, 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2, 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 2(2) 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. 30(c) (with regs. 2, 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2, 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(3) 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. 30(d) (with regs. 2, 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2, 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/1284."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "OJ No L 342, 22.12.2009, p 59."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1985 c. 72, section 69 was amended by Schedule 1, Part IV, section 1(1) of the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), Schedule 16 paragraph 75 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), and Schedule 13 paragraph 144 of the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "OJ No L 218, 13.08.2008, p 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1478/regulation/2",
    "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."
}