The Environmental Protection (Controls on Ozone-Depleting Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

24.  A person who, on or after the commencement date, places, or causes or permits another person to place, on the market any product or equipment containing –

(a) chlorofluorocarbons,

(b) other fully halogenated chlorofluorocarbons,

(c) halons,

(d) carbon tetrachloride,

(e) 1,1,1-trichloroethane, or

(f) hydrobromofluorocarbons,

commits an offence unless –

(i) the product or equipment was manufactured before 1st October 2000;

(ii) the use of the substance in that product or equipment is authorised in accordance with the second sub-paragraph of Article 3(l); or

(iii) the product or equipment contains halons and is for a critical use for the time being specified in relation to that substance in Annex VII to the principal Regulation.