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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-market-surveillance-northern-ireland-regulations-2021/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348224641",
  "legislation_title": "The Market Surveillance (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-market-surveillance-northern-ireland-regulations-2021",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Compliance Notice",
  "text": "(1) An enforcer may serve a compliance notice on an economic operator in respect of a product to which these Regulations apply if the enforcer has reasonable grounds for believing that there is non-compliance.\n(2) A compliance notice must—\n(a) require the economic operator on which it is served to—\n(i) end the non-compliance within such period as may be specified in the notice; or\n(ii) provide evidence, within such period as may be specified in the notice, demonstrating to the satisfaction of the enforcer that the non-compliance has not in fact occurred; and\n(b) warn the economic operator that, if the non-compliance persists or if satisfactory evidence has not been produced under paragraph (a) within the period specified in the notice, further action may be taken in respect of the non-compliance by the economic operator.\n(3) A compliance notice may include—\n(a) directions as to the measures to be taken by the economic operator to secure compliance, including different ways of securing compliance;\n(b) a requirement, where no other means are available to eliminate a serious risk, for the economic operator to remove content referring to the product from an online interface or to display a warning to end users when they access an online interface.\n(4) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), an enforcer may revoke or vary a compliance notice by serving a notification on the economic operator.\n(5) An enforcer may not vary a compliance notice so as to make it more restrictive for the economic operator or more onerous for the economic operator to comply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348224641/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:47:01.861928+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."
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