52Recall of appliances or components

52 Recall of appliances or components

(1)  The Director, by notice in writing served on a person –

(a) whose business is, or includes, the supply or sale of appliances or components; or

(b) who has supplied or sold an appliance or component, or an appliance or component of a specified class –

may require the person to take, within a period specified in the notice, any action specified in the notice.

(2)  The Director may make a requirement under this section only if it appears to the Director that –

(a) a specified appliance or component, or an appliance or component of a specified class, is, or is likely to become, by reason of its design or construction, unsafe to use; or

(b) specific action is necessary –

(i) to make a specified appliance or component, or appliance or component of a specified class, safe to use; or

(ii) to render safe the use of a specified appliance or component, or appliance or component of a specified class.

(3)  The action specified in the notice may consist of or include –

(a) sending a written request to the person, to whom the specified appliance or component, or appliance or component of the specified class, was supplied or sold, to return the appliance or component to the place at which it was supplied or sold; and

(b) placing an advertisement in a form approved by the Director in a newspaper or newspapers specified by the Director, for a period or periods specified by the Director, requesting all persons, to whom the specified appliance or component, or appliance or component of the specified class was supplied or sold, to return the appliance or component to the place at which it was supplied or sold; and

(c) making the specified appliance or component, or appliance or component of the specified class, safe to use or rendering safe the use of that specified appliance or component, or appliance or component of a specified class, in the manner specified in the notice; and

(d) refunding the purchase price on return of the appliance or component, if it is not practicable to render the appliance or component safe or if the supplier elects not to do so.