{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/toys-safety-regulations-2011/regulation-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/toys-safety-regulations-2011/regulation-47.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1881",
  "legislation_title": "The Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/toys-safety-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Instructions to approved bodies in relation to Type examination certificates",
  "text": "(1) An enforcement authority may request an approved body to provide to it, within such period as the body may specify, information relating to—\n(a) a Type examination certificate which that body has issued or withdrawn in relation to a toy; or\n(b) a refusal by that body to issue a Type examination certificate in relation to a toy.\n(2) The information which may be requested under paragraph (1) includes test reports and the technical documentation which relate to the toy.\n(3) The approved body must comply with the request.\n(4) If an enforcement authority forms the opinion that a toy will not comply with the essential safety requirements during its foreseeable and normal period of use, it must, where appropriate, require an approved body who issued a Type examination certificate in relation to the toy to withdraw it.\n(5) An enforcement authority must, where it considers it to be necessary, require an approved body to review a Type examination certificate issued by that body in relation to a toy.\n(6) The following are examples of when an enforcement authority may consider it to be necessary to impose a requirement under paragraph (5)—\n(a) where any change has been made to the following without the certificate having been reviewed by an approved body—\n(i) the manufacturing process for the toy;\n(ii) any raw material used in the toy; or\n(iii) any component of the toy;\n(b) where 5 years have elapsed since the certificate was issued without it having being reviewed by an approved body;\n(c) where 5 years have elapsed since the certificate was last reviewed by an approved body without it having being reviewed again by an approved body.\n(7) The approved body must comply with a requirement imposed under paragraph (5).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 47 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 15 para. 35(d) (with Sch. 15 para. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 47 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 15 para. 35(e) (with Sch. 15 para. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 47(3) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 15 para. 35(a) (with Sch. 15 para. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 47 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 15 para. 35(c) (with Sch. 15 para. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 47(7) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 15 para. 35(a) (with Sch. 15 para. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 47 heading substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 15 para. 35(a) (with Sch. 15 para. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. 47 heading substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 15 para. 35(b) (with Sch. 15 para. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1881/regulation/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:59:56.089052+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."
}