Section 21: Duty to comply with security requirements

Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 · 2022 c. 46View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1: Product security — CHAPTER 2: Duties of relevant persons, etc

A distributor of a relevant connectable product must comply with any relevant security requirements relating to the product if condition A or B is met.

Condition A is that the distributor—

intends the product to be a UK consumer connectable product, or
is aware, or ought to be aware, that the product will be a UK consumer connectable product.

Condition B is that—

the product is a UK consumer connectable product, and
at the time it was made available by the distributor, condition A was met in relation to the product.

For the meaning of "UK consumer connectable product", see section 54.

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