The Recreational Craft Regulations 1996

Regulation 16

SCHEDULE 15 ENFORCEMENT

1.

For the purposes of providing for the enforcement of these Regulations—

(a)

an enforcement authority shall have the same duty to enforce these Regulations as it has in relation to Part II of the 1987 Act, and Part IV, sections 37 and 38 and sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 42 of that Act shall apply accordingly;

(b)

section 13 of the 1987 Act (prohibition notices and notices to warn) shall (to the extent that it does not already do so) apply in relation to products to which these Regulations apply as it applies in relation to relevant goods under that section, as if the words “three months” were substituted for the words “six months” in section 13(4);

(c)

subject to paragraph (d) below, these Regulations shall constitute safety provisions for the purposes of section 14 (suspension notices), 15 (appeals against suspension notices), 16 (forfeiture: England, Wales and Northern Ireland), 17 (forfeiture: Scotland) and 18 (power to obtain information) of the 1987 Act; and

(d)

for the purposes of paragraph (c) above, the words “three months” shall be substituted for the words “six months” in section 14(6) of the 1987 Act.

2.

An enforcement authority shall, where action has been taken by it to prohibit or restrict the placing on the market of any product to which these Regulations apply which bears the CE marking, forthwith inform the Secretary of State of the action taken and the reasons for it with a view to this information being passed by the Secretary of State to the Commission.