Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 1165
Consumer Protection
Environmental Protection
Public Health
The Detergents (Amendment) Regulations 2016
Made
29th November 2016
Laid before Parliament
2nd December 2016
Coming into force
1st January 2017
The Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 1 ) in relation to measures for safety and consumer protection as respects, among other products, detergents; provisions concerning the composition, labelling, marketing, classification or description of, among other products, detergents( 2 ); measures relating to consumer protection( 3 ); and measures relating to the environment( 4 ).
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section of that Act.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Detergents (Amendment) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 1st January 2017.
Amendment of the Detergents Regulations 2010
2. —(1)The Detergents Regulations 2010( 5 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1A) of regulation 7 (contravention of Regulation 648/2004), after “consumer laundry detergent” insert “or consumer automatic dishwasher detergent”.
(3) In paragraph (3) of regulation 26 (penalties), for “regulation 1A” substitute “regulation 7(1A)”.
(4) In the table in Schedule 2 (enforcement of Regulation 648/2004), in the second column of the entry for Article 4a and Annex VIa, after “consumer laundry detergent” insert “or consumer automatic dishwasher detergent”.
Thérèse Coffey
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
29th November 2016
1972 c.68 ; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7) . The power of the Minister to make Regulations in relation to matters in, or as regards, Scotland is preserved by section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) .
S.I. 1993/2661 , as amended by S.I. 2011/1043 . Other amendments are not relevant to these Regulations.
S.I. 2010/740 , as amended by S.I. 2013/1244 .