{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaping-products-production-duty-stamps-and-commencement-regulations-2026/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaping-products-production-duty-stamps-and-commencement-regulations-2026/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Vaping Products (Production, Duty Stamps and Commencement) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaping-products-production-duty-stamps-and-commencement-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "UK representatives",
  "text": "(1) To be a UK representative a person (P) must apply to the Commissioners.\n(2) Where P makes an application in accordance with paragraph (1), P must either—\n(a) apply to the Commissioners to be an approved stamp holder at the same time as making that application, or\n(b) already be an approved stamp holder by the time of making that application.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where P is, at the time of making an application under this regulation—\n(a) not a UK representative of any overseas persons, P is not approved, until and unless notified otherwise by the Commissioners, to represent any persons who do not have a fixed place of business in the United Kingdom;\n(b) already a UK representative of at least one overseas person, P is automatically approved, after the end of such period as the Commissioners must specify in a notice published by them, to represent any persons who do not have a fixed place of business in the United Kingdom with whom the application is concerned.\n(4) A UK representative approval is subject to any conditions or restrictions—\n(a) specified by the Commissioners in a notice published by them;\n(b) imposed by them in a particular case.\n(5) An application under paragraph (1) must be made in such form and manner, and contain such information, as the Commissioners may specify in a notice published by them.\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5), the information must include, in addition to any other details the Commissioners may specify in a notice published by them, the address of the premises on which vaping products are to be stamped by the person who does not have a fixed place of business in the United Kingdom.\n(7) Save as the Commissioners may otherwise allow, a UK representative is required to secure an amount by way of guarantee, the amount of which must be communicated by the Commissioners to each individual UK representative.\n(8) For the purposes of paragraph (7), the Commissioners may specify in a notice published by them the method by which guarantees must be secured.\n(9) The Commissioners may at any time refuse an application for a UK representative approval.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“UK representative” is defined in section 123(8) of the 2026 Act (United Kingdom representatives)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Overseas person” is defined in section 123(8) of the 2026 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/331/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:03:41.887471+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."
}