{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicle-tyres-labelling-enforcement-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicle-tyres-labelling-enforcement-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1509",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicle Tyres (Labelling) (Enforcement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicle-tyres-labelling-enforcement-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Powers of customs officers to detain goods",
  "text": "(1) An Officer of Revenue and Customs may, for the purpose of facilitating the exercise by the enforcement authority or an officer, of any functions conferred on the authority or officer by Part 2 of these Regulations, seize any imported relevant tyres or any records and detain them for not more than two working days.\n(2) Anything seized and detained under this regulation must be dealt with during the period of its detention in such manner as the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs may direct.\n(3) An Officer of Revenue and Customs seizing any relevant tyres or records under this Regulation must inform the person from whom they are seized that such relevant tyres or records have been seized.\n(4) In paragraph (1), the reference to two working days is a reference to a period of forty-eight hours calculated from the time when the goods in question are seized, but disregarding so much of any period as falls on a Saturday or Sunday or on Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in the part of the United Kingdom where the goods are seized.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1509/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:34.771496+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."
}