Chapter 2: Duties of relevant persons Section 22: Statements of compliance
This Section provides that a distributor of a relevant connectable product may not make a product available in the United Kingdom unless it is accompanied by a statement of compliance, or a summary of the statement of compliance prepared in accordance with section 9(2)(b). This duty applies if the distributor intends for the product to be a UK consumer connectable product as defined in Section 54 or is aware or ought to be aware that the product will be a UK consumer connectable product.
	Subsection (3) sets out that if a manufacturer satisfies the conditions set out in regulations made under Section 9(7), then distributors do not need to ensure the presence of a statement of compliance or summary statement of compliance, so long as the distributor is satisfied that the manufacturer is fully compliant with the conditions set out in regulations made under Section 9(7).