Part 1: Corrosive products and substances Sale and delivery of corrosive products Section 3: Delivery of corrosive products to residential premises etc.
Section 3 provides that is an offence for a seller to deliver, or to arrange for the delivery of, a corrosive product to a residential premise or to a locker, where the sale is made remotely. A locker is defined in subsection (7).
	Subsection (5) provides that a residential premise is one used solely for residential purposes.
	Subsection (6) clarifies that a premise from which a business is run, for example a plumber who operates a business from his or her home, would not meet the definition of residential premises.
	Subsection (8) provides for a defence to the offence in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, where the person charged can prove that they took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.
	Subsection (9) provides for a defence to the offence in Scotland, where the accused can show they took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence. Under subsection (10), the accused will be considered to have shown they have taken all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence where they have raised sufficient evidence in relation to the defence and the contrary has not been proved beyond reasonable doubt.
	This offence is a summary only offence and subsection (11)(a) makes provision for a maximum penalty in England and Wales of imprisonment of 51 weeks, a fine, or both. The 51 weeks maximum sentence is contingent on section 281(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 coming into force and until that time the maximum sentence will be six months. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, the maximum sentence will be six months imprisonment, a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both, per subsection (11)(b).
	Subsection (13) provides that proceedings in Scotland for an offence under section 3(2) must be commenced no later than 12 months following the commission of the offence.
	This section forms part of the law of the United Kingdom.