{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-security-and-telecommunications-infrastructure-act-2022/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-security-and-telecommunications-infrastructure-act-2022/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/46",
  "legislation_title": "Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-security-and-telecommunications-infrastructure-act-2022",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Duty not to supply products where compliance failure by manufacturer",
  "text": "(1) An importer of a relevant connectable product may not make the product available in the United Kingdom if—\n(a) the importer—\n(i) intends the product to be a UK consumer connectable product, or\n(ii) is aware, or ought to be aware, that the product will be a UK consumer connectable product, and\n(b) the importer knows or believes that there is a compliance failure in relation to the product.\n(2) In this section “compliance failure” means a failure by a manufacturer of a product to comply with a relevant security requirement relating to the product.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 79"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 29.4.2024 by S.I. 2023/469, reg. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/46/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:53:55.212760+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."
}