{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electrical-equipment-safety-regulations-2016/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electrical-equipment-safety-regulations-2016/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1101",
  "legislation_title": "The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electrical-equipment-safety-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Duty to take action in respect of electrical equipment placed on the market which is considered not to be in conformity",
  "text": "(1) An importer who considers, or has reason to believe, that electrical equipment which that importer has placed on the market is not in conformity with Part 2 must immediately take the corrective measures necessary to—\n(a) bring that electrical equipment into conformity;\n(b) withdraw the electrical equipment; or\n(c) recall the electrical equipment.\n(2) Where the electrical equipment presents a risk, the importer must immediately inform the market surveillance authority ... of the risk, giving details of—\n(a) the respect in which the electrical equipment is considered not to be in conformity with Part 2; and\n(b) any corrective measures taken.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(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. 23 para. 14 (with Sch. 23 para. 30) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 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/2016/1101/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:12.052479+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."
}