{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-protection-from-misleading-marketing-regulations-2008/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-protection-from-misleading-marketing-regulations-2008/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110811475",
  "legislation_title": "The Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-protection-from-misleading-marketing-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Notice of test and intended proceedings",
  "text": "(1) Where goods purchased by an officer pursuant to regulation 22 are submitted to a test and the test leads to the institution of any proceedings for a breach of these Regulations the officer shall inform—\n(a) the person from whom the goods were purchased; or\n(b) where the goods were sold through a vending machine, the person mentioned in regulation 23(3)(b);\nof the result of the test.\n(2) Where goods seized by an officer pursuant to regulation 23 are submitted to a test then the officer shall inform the person mentioned in regulation 23(3) of the result of the test.\n(3) Where, as a result of the test, proceedings for a breach of these Regulations are taken against any person, the officer shall allow him to have the goods tested on his behalf if it is reasonably practicable to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110811475/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:16:41.509697+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."
}