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Consumer Safety Act 1978
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26If the Secretary of State proposes to serve on a person a notice to warn in respect of any goods, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State before he serves the notice to serve on the person a notification in writing—
(a)containing a draft of the notice and stating that the Secretary of State proposes to serve on the person such a notice in the form of the draft; and
(b)stating that, for the reasons set out in the notification, the Secretary of State considers that the goods specified in the draft are not safe ; and
(c)stating that the person may make representations, in writing or both in writing and orally, for the purpose of satisfying the Secretary of State that the goods are safe but that if the person intends to make such representations he must, before the expiration of the period of 14 days beginning with the day when the notification is served on him, inform the Secretary of State of his intention indicating whether the representations are to be in writing only or both in writing and oral.
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