{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-regulation-and-metrology-act-2025/section-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/20",
  "legislation_title": "Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-regulation-and-metrology-act-2025",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“authorised representative” means a person authorised to act on behalf of another person;\n“document” means anything in which information of any description is recorded;\n“domestic animal” means an animal which is not living wild;\n“EU law” means an EU regulation, EU directive, EU tertiary legislation or EU decision (which each have the meanings given in section 20 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018);\n“health”, in relation to a person, means physical or mental health;\n“made available on the market”, in relation to a product or goods, means supplied or advertised for distribution or use on the market, whether in return for payment or free of charge; and related terms are to be interpreted accordingly;\n“manufacture” includes assemble, integrate, design and engineer; and related terms are to be interpreted accordingly;\n“marketing” has the meaning given in section 1(7);\n“metrology regulations” has the meaning given in section 5(7);\n“mobile application” means application software designed and developed for use by the general public on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets;\n“online marketplace” means a service or feature of a service on—\n(a) a website or part of a website,\n(b) a mobile application, or\n(c) any other platform by means of which information is made available over the internet,\nwhich facilitates the marketing of products in the United Kingdom by that means;\n“premises” includes any land, stall, vehicle, vessel or aircraft;\n“product” has the meaning given in section 1(7);\n“product regulations” has the meaning given in section 1(9);\n“product requirements” has the meaning given in section 2(1);\n“production” has the meaning given in section 1(7);\n“relevant authority” means a person designated as a relevant authority in provision described in section 3(3) or 6(3) (as the case may be);\n“relevant EU law” has the meaning given in section 1(7);\n“use”, in relation to a product, has the meaning given in section 1(7).\n(2) The Secretary of State may by regulations amend this section for the purposes of altering the definition of “online marketplace”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 15(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/20/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:51.826138+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."
}