- Enforced by
- Trading Standards
- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 1 of 3 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 2 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Trader1
Any Person1
Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Trader — also bound by 864 other Acts
Value Added Tax Regulations 1995
416 duties
Companies Act 2006
244 duties
Companies Act 1985
85 duties
Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.002
Duty to prevent sunbed use by children (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
- Prevent under-18s from using sunbeds or entering restricted zonesTrader
s.007
Enforcement by local authorities (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authorities must enforce sunbed restrictions and appoint officersLocal authority
s.008
Obstruction (opens in a new tab)
Prosecution
- Obstruct or fail to assist an authorised officerAny Person
Unlimited fine
11 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.