Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022
PART 1Product security
CHAPTER 1Security requirements
Security requirements relating to products
1Power to specify security requirements
2Further provision about regulations under section 1
3Power to deem compliance with security requirements
Products to which security requirements may relate
4Relevant connectable products
5Types of product that may be relevant connectable products
6Excepted products
Persons to whom security requirements may apply
7Relevant persons
CHAPTER 2Duties of relevant persons, etc
Duties of manufacturers
8Duty to comply with security requirements
9Statements of compliance
10Duty to investigate potential compliance failures
11Duties to take action in relation to compliance failure
12Duty to maintain records
Duties of authorised representatives
13Duties to take action in relation to manufacturer’s compliance failure
Duties of importers
14Duty to comply with security requirements
15Statements of compliance
16Duty not to supply products where compliance failure by manufacturer
17Duty to investigate potential compliance failures of importer or manufacturer
18Duties to take action in relation to importer’s compliance failure
19Duties to take action in relation to manufacturer’s compliance failure
20Duty to maintain records of investigations
Duties of distributors
21Duty to comply with security requirements
22Statements of compliance
23Duty not to supply products where compliance failure by manufacturer
24Duties to take action in relation to distributor’s compliance failures
25Duties to take action in relation to manufacturer’s compliance failure
CHAPTER 3Enforcement
General
26Enforcement of Part 1
27Delegation of enforcement functions
Enforcement notices
28Compliance notices
29Stop notices
30Recall notices
31Power to vary or revoke enforcement notices
32Failure to comply with enforcement notice
33Appeals against enforcement notices
34Compensation for notices wrongly given
35Appeals against decisions under section 34
Monetary penalties
36Monetary penalties
37Determining the amount of a penalty
38The relevant maximum
39Penalty notices: further provision
40Enforcement of penalty notices
41Appeals against penalty notices
Forfeiture
42Forfeiture
43Further provision about forfeiture
44Appeals against decisions under section 42
Other enforcement powers
45Power to inform public about compliance failures
46Power to publish details of enforcement action taken against relevant persons
47Power to recall products
Disclosure of information
48Disclosure of information
Miscellaneous and supplementary
49Offence of purporting to act as authorised to exercise enforcement function
50Means of giving notices
51Liability of authorised representatives
52Offences by directors, partners etc
CHAPTER 4Supplementary provision
Guidance
53Guidance
Interpretation
54Meaning of “UK consumer connectable product”
55Meaning of “supply”
56Meaning of other expressions used in Part 1
PART 2Telecommunications infrastructure
Rights to upgrade and share apparatus
57Rights under the electronic communications code to share apparatus
58Upgrading and sharing of apparatus: subsisting agreements
59Upgrading and sharing of apparatus installed before 29 December 2003
Power to fly lines
60Power to fly lines from apparatus kept by another operator
Renewal of business tenancies conferring code rights
61Rent under tenancies conferring code rights: England and Wales
62Rent under tenancies conferring code rights: Northern Ireland
63Compensation relating to code rights: England and Wales
64Compensation relating to code rights: Northern Ireland
65Jurisdiction of court in relation to tenancies in England and Wales
Refusal of code rights on grounds of national security etc
66Refusal of application for code rights on grounds of national security etc
Unresponsive occupiers
67Unresponsive occupiers
Interim arrangements
68Arrangements pending determination of certain applications under code
Disputes under the electronic communications code
69Use of alternative dispute resolution
70Complaints relating to the conduct of operators
Proceedings relating to code disputes
71Jurisdiction of First-tier Tribunal in relation to code proceedings in Wales
72Power to impose time limits on the determination of code proceedings
Rights of network providers in relation to infrastructure
73Rights of network providers in relation to infrastructure
Supplementary provision
74Power to make consequential amendments
75Meaning of “the electronic communications code”
PART 3Final provisions
76Power to make transitional or saving provision
77Regulations
78Extent
79Commencement
80Short title
SCHEDULEUnresponsive occupiers: consequential amendments
1The Communications Act 2003 is amended as follows.
2In section 402 (powers of Secretary of State to make...
3(1) Schedule 3A (the electronic communications code) is amended as...

Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022

2022 Chapter 46

An Act to make provision about the security of internet-connectable products and products capable of connecting to such products; to make provision about electronic communications infrastructure; and for connected purposes.

Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—