{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-product-safety-regulations-2005/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-product-safety-regulations-2005/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1803",
  "legislation_title": "The General Product Safety Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-product-safety-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Power of Secretary of State to obtain information",
  "text": "(1) If the Secretary of State considers that, for the purposes of deciding whether to serve a safety notice, or to vary or revoke a safety notice which he has already served, he requires information or a sample of a product he may serve on a person a notice requiring him:\n(a) to furnish to the Secretary of State, within a period specified in the notice, such information as is specified;\n(b) to produce such records as are specified in the notice at a time and place so specified (and to produce any such records which are stored in any electronic form in a form in which they are visible and legible) and to permit a person appointed by the Secretary of State for that purpose to take copies of the records at that time and place;\n(c) to produce such samples of a product as are specified in the notice at a time and place so specified.\n(2) A person shall be guilty of an offence if he—\n(a) fails, without reasonable cause, to comply with a notice served on him under paragraph (1); or\n(b) in purporting to comply with a requirement which by virtue of paragraph (1)(a) or (b) is contained in such a notice—\n(i) furnishes information or records which he knows are false in a material particular, or\n(ii) recklessly furnishes information or records which are false in a material particular.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (2) shall—\n(a) in the case of an offence under sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale; and\n(b) in the case of an offence under sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph, be liable—\n(i) on conviction on indictment, to a fine;\n(ii) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1803/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:56:36.419496+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."
}