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CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 1

1.(1) The Ministry of Home Affairs may by regulations impose as respects any
prescribed class of goods

(a)any such requirements, whether as to the composition or contents, design,
construction, finish or packing of, or otherwise relating to, goods of that
class or any component part thereof, as are in the opinion of the Ministry
necessary to prevent or reduce risk of death or personal injury;

(b)any such requirements for securing that goods of that class or any
component part thereof are in the prescribed manner marked with or accompanied
by any prescribed warning or instructions, or any prescribed form of warning
or instructions, which in the opinion of the Ministry is or are necessary as
aforesaid.

(2) Regulations under this section may provide that the Schedule to this Act
shall have effect in relation to goods of any class prescribed under this
section, or to such goods and to goods of which such goods are a
component part.

(3) A class or description of goods may be prescribed under this section
notwithstanding that the goods are for use only as component parts of other
goods (whether or not those other goods are goods of a prescribed class or
description).

(4) It shall be the duty of the Ministry of Home Affairs, before making any
regulations under this section, to consult with such other persons or bodies
of persons as appear to it requisite.

(5) Regulations under this section shall be subject to affirmative resolution.

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