- Enforced by
- OPSS, Trading Standards, VCA
- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 2 of 2 obligations carry up to 2 years imprisonment.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Other Acts binding the same actors
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Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts
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.
- Breach of product safety regulations or enforcement noticesAny Person
- Breach of metrology rules, obstruction, or providing false informationAny Person
15 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Help complying
Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.
Start selling products on the UK market
A comprehensive introduction to UK product safety compliance for businesses placing products on the GB market. Covers the legal framework (CPA 1987, …
Product safety quick compliance check
Rapid product safety self-assessment: verify safety obligations, marking, documentation, traceability, and recall readiness for products on the UK market.
Product compliance checklist for GB market
Quick checklist to verify your products meet GB market requirements for conformity marking, safety assessment, documentation, and traceability before placing goods on …
Start a retail business - compliance essentials
Put the legal basics in place before you open a shop: consumer rights, pricing, weights and measures, product safety, data, accessibility, staff …
Respond to a Trading Standards investigation
What to do if Trading Standards has contacted you, visited your premises, or conducted a test purchase. Covers understanding their powers, identifying …
Run a retail business
Ongoing compliance and operational guidance for established retail businesses
Assess whether your product meets the general safety requirement
Before you sell a consumer product in Great Britain, assess its foreseeable hazards and record your findings in a signed, dated risk …
Find your product safety duties in the supply chain
Under the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 your duties depend on whether you are a producer or a distributor, decided by what …
How product liability law applies to AI
Products containing AI are already covered by UK product safety law. Under the Consumer Protection Act 1987, producers are strictly liable for …
Online marketplace product safety duties
If your online marketplace lets third-party sellers offer products to UK consumers, you may already be a distributor with duties under the …
Understand UK product safety law
Three sets of rules can apply to the same product failure: a duty to supply only safe consumer products, strict liability for …
6 more guides that reference this instrument
Connected legislation
Instruments made under this Act. They carry the detail the Act delegates.
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.