Paragraph 59 Amendment to Article 5I1

England, Wales and Scotland

In Article 5 (national authority for assigning the unique code of the manufacturer)—

(a)

in the heading for “National authority” substitute “ UK national body ”;

(b)

in paragraph 1 for “Each Member State shall designate the national authority or the” substitute “ The Secretary of State may designate the UK ”;

(c)

omit paragraph 2;

(d)

after paragraph 2 insert—

“3
In the absence of a designation under paragraph 1, the Secretary of State is responsible for assigning the unique code of the manufacturer.”.

Annotations

I1: Sch. 28 para. 59 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1