{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wharves-examination-stations-and-temporary-storage-facilities-approval-conditions-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wharves-examination-stations-and-temporary-storage-facilities-approval-conditions-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1265",
  "legislation_title": "The Wharves, Examination Stations and Temporary Storage Facilities (Approval Conditions) ( EU Exit) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wharves-examination-stations-and-temporary-storage-facilities-approval-conditions-eu-exit-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Approval conditions",
  "text": "(1) Unless regulation 3 applies, a place must meet Items 1 to 4 in relation to Items 5 to 15 in the Schedule before the grant of approved wharf status.\n(2) A part of, or a place at, a customs and excise airport must meet Items 1 to 4 in relation to Items 5 to 15 in the Schedule (except Item 14) before the grant of examination station status.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a place must meet Items 1 to 4, in relation to Items 5 to 9 and Items 12 to 15 in the Schedule, before the grant of temporary storage facility status.\n(4) Before the Commissioners approve a place as a temporary storage facility that meets the conditions in regulation 2(1A) of the Customs (Temporary Storage Facilities Approval Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 that place must meet Items 1 to 4 in relation to Items 5 to 7, 11(a) and 12 to 15 in the Schedule.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (30.6.2026) by The Customs (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/605), regs. 1(1), 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(3) inserted (1.7.2022) by The Customs (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/628), regs. 1(3), 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 2(4) inserted (1.7.2022) by The Customs (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/628), regs. 1(3), 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Approved wharf is defined in the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, section 20A(1) which was a substitution made by S.I. 1991/2724 and amended by S.I. 1993/3014 and S.I. 2011/1043. It will be amended again when the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018, Schedule 7, paragraph 10(2) enters force."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Examination stations are defined in the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, section 22A(1) which was a substitution made by S.I. 1991/2724 and amended by S.I. 1993/3014 and S.I. 2011/1043. It will be amended again when the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018, Schedule 7, paragraph 13(2) enters force."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Temporary storage facilities (transit sheds) are defined in the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, section 25A(1) which was a substitution made by S.I. 1991/2724 and amended by S.I. 1993/3014 and S.I. 2011/1043. It will be amended again when the Taxation (Cross-border) Trade Act 2018, Schedule 7, paragraph 17(2) enters force changing the terminology from “transit shed” to “temporary storage facility”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1265/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:51:24.111577+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."
}