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<blockquote data-quote="Sidewinder" data-source="post: 543574" data-attributes="member: 9512"><p>It's actually a personal import.</p><p>Whereby the person buying it, for example, from AliExpress direct from Chia directly from a Chinese company, becomes the legal importer and is thus legally responsible to ensure that the product is compliant with all legislation before it is placed in the hands of the end user.</p><p>The importer is just that, private individual or not, the buyer is made legally responsible for the product, even if the end-user and the buyer are one and the same.</p><p>That's the law, and if anything happens, the burden of proof is reversed, and the buyer/user is guilty by default and must prove their innocence.</p><p>Not my rules, but that's how the law is structured, like it or not.</p><p>If you buy from one of the global marketplaces, and the goods come from outside the UK/EU then you are legally responsible for what happens to them, safety, under all the relevant legislation, low voltage, machinery, rohs, coshh, etc, etc.</p><p>You would be responsible for ensuring that if the product required it, CE/UKCA marking and compilation of the technical file if needed by the law.</p><p>The ramifications are significant if things go wrong.</p><p>I think this has been mentioned recently here on another topic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sidewinder, post: 543574, member: 9512"] It's actually a personal import. Whereby the person buying it, for example, from AliExpress direct from Chia directly from a Chinese company, becomes the legal importer and is thus legally responsible to ensure that the product is compliant with all legislation before it is placed in the hands of the end user. The importer is just that, private individual or not, the buyer is made legally responsible for the product, even if the end-user and the buyer are one and the same. That's the law, and if anything happens, the burden of proof is reversed, and the buyer/user is guilty by default and must prove their innocence. Not my rules, but that's how the law is structured, like it or not. If you buy from one of the global marketplaces, and the goods come from outside the UK/EU then you are legally responsible for what happens to them, safety, under all the relevant legislation, low voltage, machinery, rohs, coshh, etc, etc. You would be responsible for ensuring that if the product required it, CE/UKCA marking and compilation of the technical file if needed by the law. The ramifications are significant if things go wrong. I think this has been mentioned recently here on another topic. [/QUOTE]
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