The Textile Products (Determination of Composition) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Made: 29th July 1988

Laid before Parliament: 4th August 1988

Coming into force: 1st September 1988

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated[^f00001] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[^f00002] in relation to provisions concerning the composition, labelling, marketing, classification or description of textiles and products incorporating textiles, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Textile Products (Determination of Composition) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st September 1988.

• (2) The Textile Products (Determination of Composition) (Amendment) Regulations 1979[^f00003] and the Textile Products (Determination of Composition) (Amendment) Regulations 1982[^f00004] are hereby revoked.

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The Textile Products (Determination of Composition) Regulations 1976[^f00005] are hereby amended as follows:

• (a) for the definitions in regulation 2(1) there shall be substituted— ““B.S. 4407” means the British Standard of that number published by the British Standards Institution on 29th July 1988; and “textile product” has the same meaning as in the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986.”[^f00006];

• (b) in regulation 3, for the references to the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1973[^f00007] there shall be substituted references to the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986;

• (c) in regulation 5, for “section five” there shall be substituted “Appendix A”;

• (d) for regulation 7, there shall be substituted—

(7) Regulations 5(3) and 6 shall have effect as if methods 14 and 17 were omitted from section four of B.S. 4407; Provided that nothing in this regulation shall be taken as prohibiting the use of method 14 or 17 in appropriate cases.

• (e) in Schedule 1, in paragraph 7, for “Regulation 3(4) of the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1973” there shall be substituted “regulation 5(4) of the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986”; and

• (f) in Schedule 2, in paragraph 1, for “7(1)(d) of Schedule 1 to the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1973 (that is to say, fatty substances, bindings, sizings, dressings, additional dyeing and printing products and other textile processing products)” there shall be substituted “7(1)(f) of Schedule 1 to the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) Regulations 1986 (that is to say, fatty substances, binders, weightings, sizings and dressings, impregnating products, additional dyeing and printing products and other textile processing products”.

Signed

Robert Atkins — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Trade and Industry — 29th July 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Textile Products (Determination of Composition) Regulations 1976, which specified the test methods to be used to determine the composition of certain textile products. In order to implement Commission Directive 87/184/EEC (OJ No. L75, 17.3.87, p.21) a new edition of B.S. 4407 has been prepared and the Regulations refer to this edition.

Copies of that British Standard may be obtained from any of the sales outlets operated by the British Standards Institution (BSI) or by post from the BSI at Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1979/749.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1982/767.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1976/202.

[^f00006]: S.I. 1986/26.

[^f00007]: S.I. 1973/2124.