My interpretation is that ‘anything’ that a landlord supplies to a tenant must be safe and is covered under the General Product Safety Regulations UNLESS there are other regulations that specifically cover that product e.g. a gas appliance. In your opinion, what ‘products’ are covered by the GPSRs? Things like the electrical installation, chimney, stoves (Multi-fuel and Wood Burning), oil installations, internal glazing, internal window blinds are all covered by safety standards and recommendations from industry bodies but from a safety perspective are not explicitly covered by their own ‘regulations’ so would they be considered ‘products’ and covered by the GPSRs?
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Responsibilities and Liabilities (England)
General Product Safety Regulations – What is a product?
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Product is defined in the regulations as:
As can be seen, “product” basically covers everything!
However, in applying the regulations, the regs only apply as follows (highlights added by author):
And continues …
Therefore, if there are other regulations achieving a safety objective that is not in the General Product Safety Directive, those other regulations take precedence. But, if the individual regulations do not cover all aspects of safety, then, the General Product regs can take over for those missing aspects.
As far as the UK is concerned, in our view, the gas and electric appliance regulations (for example) will generally take precedence because those regulations will cover most if not all aspects of safety.