Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010

4Power to make further provision restricting use, sale or hire of sunbedsE+W

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(1)Regulations may make provision requiring a person who carries on a sunbed business (“P”) to secure that—

(a)the use of sunbeds to which the business relates is supervised in such manner as the regulations may require;

(b)no sunbed to which the business relates is used on domestic premises by a person aged under 18;

(c)no offer is made by P or on P's behalf to make a sunbed to which the business relates available for use on domestic premises by a person aged under 18.

(2)Regulations may make provision prohibiting or restricting the sale or hire of sunbeds to persons aged under 18.

(3)Before making regulations under subsection (1)(a) or (2), the appropriate national authority must consult persons appearing to the appropriate national authority to have an interest in the subject-matter of the proposed regulations.

(4)Consultation undertaken by the appropriate national authority before the commencement of this section is as effective for the purposes of subsection (3) as consultation undertaken after that time.