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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-refrigerators-and-freezers-regulations-1997/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1941",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Efficiency (Refrigerators and Freezers) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-refrigerators-and-freezers-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Enforcement and offences",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), it shall be the duty of every enforcement authority to enforce these Regulations within its area.\n(2) Schedule 3 shall have effect with regard to offences, enforcement of these Regulations, and other matters.\n(3) Nothing in these Regulations shall authorise a local weights and measures authority in Scotland to bring proceedings in Scotland for an offence.\n(4) Where an enforcement authority takes a decision pursuant to these Regulations which amounts to or includes a restriction on the placing on the market of an appliance, the authority shall without delay inform—\n(a) the party affected and the Secretary of State of the decision and the precise grounds on which it is based, and\n(b) the party affected of the possibilities and time limits regarding legal remedies available to it in respect of the decision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1941/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:40.715628+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."
}