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Enforced by: Forestry Commission
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Imprisonment 2 of 4 obligations carry up to 2 years imprisonment. 2 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Director or Officer1 Any Person1

Plus 2 duties 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.

Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 162 duties

Companies Act 2006 126 duties

Insolvency Act 1986 77 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 68 duties

Building Societies Act 1986 32 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.

Part 1

Introduction

0 of 3 sections shown

3 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.001 Title, commencement and interpretation

s.002 Competent authority

s.003 Inspectors

Part 2

Offences

2 of 3 sections shown

s.004 Offences Imprisonment

Place illegally harvested timber on the market or fail due diligenceAny Person

s.006 Offences by bodies corporate, partnerships and unincorporated associations Imprisonment

Personal liability for directors and officers for timber violationsDirector or Officer

1 other section in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.005 Due diligence defence

Part 3

Enforcement

1 of 8 sections shown

s.011 Notice of remedial actions Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Forestry Commission may issue notices requiring remedial actionStatutory regulator

7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.007 Powers of entry

s.008 Powers of inspection

s.009 Powers of seizure

s.010 Obstruction of an inspector

s.012 Appeals against notice of remedial actions

s.013 Penalties

s.014 Recovery of expenses of enforcement

Part 4

Miscellaneous provisions

1 of 3 sections shown

s.017 Review Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Secretary of State must review Timber Regulations every five yearsCrown / Minister / Government department

2 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.015 Restrictions on enforcement powers

s.016 Service of notices

Help complying

Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.

1 more guide that reference this instrument

Timber sourcing compliance for construction

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.