PART 1Product security

CHAPTER 1Security requirements

Persons to whom security requirements may apply

7Relevant persons

(1)

This section has effect for the purposes of this Part.

(2)

“Relevant person”, in relation to a relevant connectable product, means any of the following—

(a)

a manufacturer of the product (see subsection (3));

(b)

an importer of the product (see subsection (4));

(c)

a distributor of the product (see subsection (5)).

(3)

“Manufacturer” means any of the following—

(a)

any person who—

(i)

manufactures a product, or has a product designed or manufactured, and

(ii)

markets that product under that person’s name or trade mark;

(b)

any person (“P”) who markets a product manufactured by another person under P’s name or trade mark.

(4)

“Importer”, in relation to a product, means any person who—

(a)

imports the product from a country outside the United Kingdom into the United Kingdom, and

(b)

is not a manufacturer of the product.

(5)

“Distributor”, in relation to a product, means any person who—

(a)

makes the product available in the United Kingdom, and

(b)

is not a manufacturer or an importer of the product.

(6)

But a person is not to be regarded as a distributor of a product if—

(a)

the person makes the product available by performing a contract for the carrying out of works that consist of or include the installation of the product into a building or structure, and

(b)

products identical to the product are or have been made available to consumers in the United Kingdom otherwise than by the performance of such a contract.