This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in SI 2020/1112 and SI 2020/1460 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.
Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 1486
Exiting The European Union
Consumer Protection
Weights And Measures, Northern Ireland
The Product Safety (Toys and Cosmetics) and Metrology (Measuring and Non-automatic Weighing Instruments) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
Made
8th December 2020
Laid before Parliament
10th December 2020
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of powers conferred by section 8C(1) of, and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018( 1 ).
Citation, commencement and extent
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Product Safety (Toys and Cosmetics) and Metrology (Measuring and Non-automatic Weighing Instruments) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.
(2) This regulation and regulation 2 come into force immediately before Part 4 of the Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (UK(NI) Indication) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020( 2 ) comes into force.
(3) Regulation 3 comes into force immediately before IP completion day.
(4) This regulation extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
(5) Regulation 2 extends to England and Wales and Scotland only.
(6) Regulation 3 extends to Northern Ireland only.
Amendment to the Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (UK(NI) Indication) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
2. In Schedule 3 to the Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (UK(NI) Indication) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, in paragraph 9(4), in the inserted regulation 39AB(3)(b)(iii), for “regulated measuring instrument” substitute “toy”.
Amendment to the Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
3. In the Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020( 3 )—
(a) in Schedule 6 (cosmetic products enforcement) after paragraph 1(6) insert—
“ (6A) In regulation 20—
(a) in paragraph (1) omit “England and Wales or”;
(b) omit paragraph (5)(a);
(c) in the text following paragraph (5)(b) omit from “section 111” to “1980, or”. ” ;
(b) in Schedule 13 (non-automatic weighing instruments) omit paragraph 2(1)(h);
(c) in Schedule 14 (measuring instruments)—
(i) for paragraph 2(1)(e) substitute—
“ (e) in the definition of “make available on the market” for “European Economic Area” substitute “relevant”; ” ;
(ii) after paragraph 2(1)(e) insert—
“ (ea) in the definition of “place on the market” for “market, in the European Economic Area” substitute “relevant market”; ” ;
(iii) omit paragraph 2(1)(g).
Paul Scully
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy
8th December 2020
2018 c.16 ; section 8C was inserted by section 21 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c.1) and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 was amended by section 41(4) of, and paragraph 53(2) of Schedule 5 to, that Act.