- Enforced by
- ECJU
- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 1 of 2 obligations carry imprisonment (6 months). 1 has no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Trader1
Any Person1
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 825 other Acts
Value Added Tax Regulations 1995
416 duties
Companies Act 2006
243 duties
Companies Act 1985
85 duties
Any Person — also bound by 2340 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
Regulations 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.001
Prohibition on importation
Regulated
- Do not import goods into the UK without a valid licenceTrader
s.004
False statements etc
Imprisonment
- Provide false information to obtain an import licenceAny Person
6 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.002
Licensed imports
s.003
Channel Islands
s.005
Licences
s.006
Interpretation and revocation
s.007
Interpretation and revocation
s.008
Citation and Commencement
Connected legislation
The wider family of instruments made under the same parent Act.
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.