{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equipment-and-protective-systems-intended-for-use-in-potentially-explosive-atmospheres-regulations-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equipment-and-protective-systems-intended-for-use-in-potentially-explosive-atmospheres-regulations-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1107",
  "legislation_title": "The Equipment and Protective Systems Intended for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equipment-and-protective-systems-intended-for-use-in-potentially-explosive-atmospheres-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Withdrawal notice",
  "text": "(1) The market surveillance authority may serve a withdrawal notice on a relevant economic operator in respect of a product if the authority has reasonable grounds for believing that—\n(a) the product has been made available on the market; and\n(b) there is non-compliance.\n(2) A withdrawal notice must prohibit the relevant economic operator from making the product available on the market without the consent of the market surveillance authority.\n(3) A withdrawal notice may require the relevant economic operator to take action to alert end-users to any risk presented by the product.\n(4) A withdrawal notice may require the relevant economic operator to keep the market surveillance authority informed of the whereabouts of any product referred to in the notice.\n(5) A consent given by the market surveillance authority pursuant to a withdrawal notice, may impose such conditions on the making available on the market as the market surveillance authority considers appropriate.\n(6) Subject to sub-paragraph (7), the market surveillance authority may revoke or vary a withdrawal notice by serving a notification on the economic operator.\n(7) The market surveillance authority may not vary a withdrawal notice so as to make it more restrictive for the economic operator or more onerous for the economic operator to comply.\n(8) A withdrawal notice has effect throughout Great Britain.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 2 in force at 8.12.2016, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1107/schedule/5/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:07.920209+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."
}