Paragraph 10 F1F2
Power of customs officer to detain apparatus
A customs officer may, for the purpose of facilitating the exercise by an enforcement authority or officer of such an authority of any functions conferred on the authority or officer by or under this Schedule in its application for the purposes of these Regulations, seize any imported apparatus and detain it for not more than two working days.
Anything seized and detained under this paragraph shall be dealt with during the period of its detention in such manner as the Commissioners of Customs and Excise may direct.
In sub-paragraph (1) above the reference to two working days is a reference to a period of forty-eight hours calculated from the time when the apparatus in question is 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 apparatus is seized.
In this paragraph and paragraph 11 below “customs officer” means any officer within the meaning of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Regulations revoked (with savings) (26.12.2017) by The Radio Equipment Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1206), regs. 1, 78(1) (with regs. 3-5, 77, 78(2)); and Regulations (as saved) modified (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2017/1206, reg. 78(2)(2A) (as amended by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 29 para. 45(3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))
- F2
Sch. 9 substituted (29.12.2003) by The Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3144), regs. 1, 2(10)