The Construction Products Regulations 2013

UK Statutory Instrument 2013 No. 1387 — creates 12 criminal offences.

12offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 4 June 2013
In force from: 1 July 2013
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Miscellaneous
Made under: European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations make provision necessary for the operation in the United Kingdom of Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC (OJ No L 88, 4.4.2011, p.5) (“the 2011 Regulation”). The Regulations revoke the Construction Products Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/6120, amended by S.I. 1994/3051) (“the 1991 Regulations”), which implemented Council Directive 89/106/EEC on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to construction products (OJ No L 40, 11.2.1989, p.12) in the United Kingdom. Part 1 (preliminary) of the Regulations provides for citation, commencement and interpretation, and establishes the competent authority in the United Kingdom for the purposes of the 2011 Regulation, and, insofar as it applies to construction products, to Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93 (OJ L 218, 13.8.2008, p.30) (“the 2008 Regulation”). In Part 2 (requirements relating to construction products), regulations 4 (prohibition on supply etc.) and 5 (breaches of duty by economic operators) establish offence provisions in respect of breaches of the principal safety-related provisions of the 2011 Regulation. Regulation 6 (other breaches of the 2011 Regulation) provides an offence where construction products are supplied without accompanying product identification, contact information for manufacturers, importers or distributors, or instructions and safety information. Regulation 7 (suspension notices) and Schedule 2 make provision, based on provision in the 1991 Regulations, for the service of notices by an enforcement authority suspending the supply of construction products on grounds of the commission of an offence under regulations 4, 5 or 6, or on a number of grounds relating to the 2011 Regulation and to the 2008 Regulation, set out in Schedule 1. Schedule 2 includes provision for appeal against suspension notices. An offence is provided for in respect of breach of a notice. Regulations 8 (forfeiture: England and Wales and Northern Ireland) and 9 (forfeiture: Scotland) make provision for forfeiture of construction products, based on provision in the 1991 Regulations, on grounds similar to those for the service of suspension notices. Regulation 10 (duty of enforcement authority to give notice of suspension notices and forfeiture applications etc.) provides that enforcement authorities must notify the Secretary of State of any action that they take under regulations 7 to 9. Regulations 11 (prohibition notices) and 12 (notices to warn) make provision, based on provision in the 1991 Regulations, for the service of notices by the Secretary of State prohibiting the supply of construction products, and requiring the issue of warnings in relation to construction products, on grounds of the commission of an offence under regulations 4 or 5, or on the grounds set out in Schedule 1. Offences are provided for in respect of breach of notices. Regulation 13 (power to obtain information) provides for the service of notices requiring information to assist the Secretary of State in deciding whether to serve prohibition notices and notices to warn, with an offence for non-compliance or provision of false information. Schedules 3 and 4 contain requirements for the content of prohibition notices and notices to warn. Schedule 3 establishes a procedure by which representations may be made against the grounds for service of a prohibition notice. Schedule 4 provides for notice to be given in advance of service of a notice to warn, and for a procedure for representations to be made against the service of the notice. Part 3 (enforcement of Part 2 and the 2011 Regulation) of the Regulations makes enforcement provision based on similar provision in the 1991 Regulation. Regulation 14 (enforcement) establishes the duty for local weights and measures authorities in England and Wales and in Scotland, and district councils in Northern Ireland, to carry out market surveillance under the 2008 Regulation, as it applies to construction products, and the 2011 Regulation and to enforce the provisions of Part 2 and the 2011 Regulation in their areas. Regulation 14 also empowers local weights and measures authorities in England and Wales to investigate and prosecute in relation to offences anywhere in England and Wales, and district councils to do the same anywhere in Northern Ireland. Regulations 16 (powers of search etc.) and 17 (provisions supplemental to regulation 16) govern powers of entry, search and seizure in connection with failures to comply with the requirements of the 2011 Regulation and offences under Part 2 of the Regulations. Regulation 18 (obstruction of authorised officer) establishes offences for obstructing, or giving false information to, an officer of an enforcement authority. Part 4 (miscellaneous and supplemental) makes provision also largely based on provision in the 1991 Regulations. This includes an offence provision in regulation 22 (restrictions on disclosure of information) for disclosure of information obtained in the course of procedures under the Regulations or under Article 27(2) (sharing of information between market surveillance and external border control authorities) of the 2008 Regulation, and transitional provisions. A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as a full impact assessment of the effect that the proposals that led to the adoption of the 2011 Regulation will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector was carried out in 2009. No, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen beyond that already described in that assessment. The 2009 impact assessment is available online athttp://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/2010010417052/http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/constructionproductsimpactfinal, or a copy may be obtained on application to the Department for Communities and Local Government, Building Regulations and Standards Division, Zone 5/G9, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU or to construction.products@communities.gsi.gov.uk .

Offences created by this instrument

Prohibition notices regulation 11(5) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Notices to warn regulation 12(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Power to obtain information regulation 13(3) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Provisions supplemental to regulation 16 regulation 17(8) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Obstruction of authorised officer regulation 18(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Obstruction of authorised officer regulation 18(2) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Restrictions on the disclosure of information regulation 22(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Prohibition on supply etc regulation 4(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Prohibition on supply etc regulation 4(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Breaches of duty by economic operators regulation 5(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Other breaches of the 2011 Regulation regulation 6(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Suspension notices regulation 7(7) · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

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Draft Construction Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Commons · General Committees · 4 February 2019 · Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham) (Lab)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey. I thank the Minister for outlining the purpose of the statutory instrument and for giving me some interesting reading over the weekend when, thankfully, there was a lot of snow in Durham and I was snowed in, otherwise I am not entirely sure I would have got to the end of it. I gently say to him that the regulations are very complicated. It would be helpful if he assisted the Committee in its deliberations as much as possible, which means ensuring that information is available not only to himself, but to all members of the…
Construction Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Lords · Lords Chamber · 10 November 2020 · The Minister of State, Home Office and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Lord Greenhalgh) (Con)
My Lords, these regulations were laid before both Houses on 15 October 2020. They are part of the Government’s programme to update EU exit legislation to ensure that there continues to be a functioning legislative and regulatory regime at the end of the transition period. The regulations are made using powers in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 to amend the Construction Products Regulations in the UK. They ensure that the EU construction products regulation continues to apply in Northern Ireland in accordance with the Northern Ireland protocol to the EU withdrawal agreement. They…

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