# The Market Surveillance (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021, Paragraph 24: Notice of testing of products


(1) Sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) apply where products purchased by an officer of an enforcer under paragraph 6 are submitted to a test and as a result—
(a) proceedings are brought for a breach of, or under, the enforcer’s legislation or for the forfeiture of the products by the enforcer, or
(b) a notice is served by the enforcer preventing a person from doing any thing.
(2) Sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) also apply where products seized by an officer of an enforcer under paragraph 13 are submitted to a test.
(3) The enforcer must inform the relevant person of the results of the test.
(4) The enforcer must allow a relevant person to have the products tested if it is reasonably practicable to do so.
(5) In sub-paragraph (3) “relevant person” means the person from whom the products were purchased or seized or, where the products were purchased or seized from a vending machine—
(a) the person whose name and address are on the vending machine as the owner of the machine, or
(b) if there is no such name and address on the machine, the occupier of the premises on which the machine stood or to which it was fixed.
(6) In sub-paragraph (4) “relevant person” means—
(a) a person within sub-paragraph (5),
(b) in a case within sub-paragraph (1)(a), a person who is a party to the proceedings, and
(c) in a case within sub-paragraph (1)(b), a person with an interest in the products.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348224641/schedule/1/paragraph/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-market-surveillance-northern-ireland-regulations-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-24
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