{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cosmetic-products-enforcement-regulations-2013/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cosmetic-products-enforcement-regulations-2013/regulation-26.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/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Review",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—\n(a) carry out a review of these Regulations and the Cosmetic Regulation,\n(b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and\n(c) publish the report.\n(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the EU Cosmetics Regulation (which is enforced and supplemented by means of these Regulations) is executed and enforced in other member States.\n(3) The report must in particular—\n(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by these Regulations and the Cosmetic Regulation,\n(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and\n(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.\n(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.\n(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(1) inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 34 para. 39 (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": "Words in reg. 26(3) inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 34 para. 39 (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": "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/26",
    "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."
}