Prohibition of importation and placing on the market of unnotified substances
22.—(1) Where a new substance is required to be notified under regulation 4 or 6, the importation of that substance into the United Kingdom is prohibited unless it has been duly notified in accordance with that regulation.
(2) Any contravention of paragraph (1) shall be punishable under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979(1) and not as a contravention of a health and safety regulation.
(3) Where the Executive has reasonable cause to believe that a person has or is likely to have in his possession a new substance to which these Regulations apply and which has not been duly notified in accordance with regulation 4 or 6 or Article 7(1) of the Directive it may, by notice in writing prohibit that person from placing that substance on the market or disposing of it until 60 days, or in the case of a substance that is required to be notified under regulation 6 30 days, after in either case it has been duly notified.