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19.—(1) A customs officer may, for the purpose of facilitating the exercise by an enforcement authority or officer of such an authority of any functions conferred on the authority or officer by these Regulations, seize any imported construction products and detain them for not more than two working days.
(2) Anything seized and detained under this regulation shall be dealt with during the period of its detention in such manner as the Commissioners of Customs and Excise may direct.
(3) In paragraph (1) above the reference to two working days is a reference to a period of forty-eight hours calculated from the time when the products in question are seized but disregarding so much of any period as falls on a Saturday or Sunday or on Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1) in the part of the United Kingdom where the products are seized.
(4) In this regulation and regulation 20 “customs officer” means any officer within the meaning of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979.
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