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47.—(1) [F3An approved body] to which an application has been made by a manufacturer or [F4the manufacturer’s UK responsible person] to perform the functions of [F5an approved body] under a conformity assessment procedure set out in [F6these Regulations] shall perform those functions, in accordance with the requirements of the procedure, if those functions are within the framework of tasks which the body is designated to carry out.
(2) Where a manufacturer or [F7the manufacturer’s UK responsible person] has supplied information or data to [F8an approved body] in the course of a conformity assessment procedure, that body may, where duly justified, require the manufacturer to provide any additional information or data which it considers necessary for the purposes of that procedure.
(3) The information, data and correspondence that a manufacturer or [F9the manufacturer’s UK responsible person supplies to an approved body] in the course of a conformity assessment procedure set out in [F10these Regulations] shall, F11..., be in English F12....
(4) [F13An approved body] shall, as respects a medical device which it has assessed F14..., inform all [F15other approved bodies] and the Secretary of State of—
(a)all certificates suspended or withdrawn; and
(b)on request, all certificates issued or refused,
and shall also make available to them, on request, any or all additional relevant information.
(5) Where [F16an approved body] finds, as respects a medical device which it has assessed F14..., that—
(a)the applicable requirements of [F17these Regulations] have not been met or are no longer met; or
(b)a certificate issued by it should not have been issued,
it may (having regard in particular to the principle of proportionality and the ability of the manufacturer to take appropriate corrective measures) suspend or withdraw the certificate issued in respect of that device or place restrictions on it, and in such cases, or in cases where the [F18approved body] is aware of circumstances in which the Secretary of State may need to take action pursuant to regulation 61, the [F18approved body] shall inform the Secretary of State thereof.
(6) The Secretary of State may request that [F19an approved body] supply to him any information and documents that the Secretary of State may, having regard to the terms of [F20a mutual recognition agreement], need to supply to a Party to [F20a mutual recognition agreement], and the body shall supply to him any and all information or documents so requested.
(8) [F21An approved body] shall provide conformity assessment bodies with all the information it is required to provide to those bodies under [F22a mutual recognition agreement].
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F23(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Extent Information
E1This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only
Textual Amendments
F2Reg. 47 heading substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in reg. 47(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(b)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Words in reg. 47(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(b)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Words in reg. 47(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(b)(iii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F6Words in reg. 47(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(b)(iv) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F7Words in reg. 47(2) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(c)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F8Words in reg. 47(2) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(c)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F9Words in reg. 47(3) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(d)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F10Words in reg. 47(3) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(d)(iii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F11Words in reg. 47(3) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(d)(iii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F12Words in reg. 47(3) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(d)(iv) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F13Words in reg. 47(4) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(e)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F14Words in reg. 47(4)(5) omitted (21.3.2010) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2936), regs. 1(1), 16
F15Words in reg. 47(4) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(e)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F16Words in reg. 47(5) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(f)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F17Words in reg. 47(5)(a) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(f)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F18Words in reg. 47(5) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(f)(iii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F19Words in reg. 47(6) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(g)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F20Words in reg. 47(6) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(g)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F21Words in reg. 47(8) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(h)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F22Words in reg. 47(8) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(6)(h)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F23Reg. 47(9)(10) omitted (21.10.2013) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2327), regs. 1(2), 15
General matters relating to UK notified bodiesN.I.
47.—(1) A UK notified body to which an application has been made by a manufacturer or his authorised representative to perform the functions of a notified body under a conformity assessment procedure set out in the Medical Devices Directives shall perform those functions, in accordance with the requirements of the procedure, if those functions are within the framework of tasks which the body is designated to carry out.
(2) Where a manufacturer or his authorised representative has supplied information or data to a UK notified body in the course of a conformity assessment procedure, that body may, where duly justified, require the manufacturer to provide any additional information or data which it considers necessary for the purposes of that procedure.
(3) The information, data and correspondence that a manufacturer or his authorised representative supplies to a notified body in the course of a conformity assessment procedure set out in the Medical Devices Directives shall, if the notified body is within the United Kingdom, be in English or some other Community language acceptable to the notified body concerned.
(4) A UK notified body shall, as respects a medical device which it has assessed F24..., inform all other notified bodies and the Secretary of State of—
(a)all certificates suspended or withdrawn; and
(b)on request, all certificates issued or refused,
and shall also make available to them, on request, any or all additional relevant information.
(5) Where a UK notified body finds, as respects a medical device which it has assessed F24..., that—
(a)the applicable requirements of the Medical Devices Directives have not been met or are no longer met; or
(b)a certificate issued by it should not have been issued,
it may (having regard in particular to the principle of proportionality and the ability of the manufacturer to take appropriate corrective measures) suspend or withdraw the certificate issued in respect of that device or place restrictions on it, and in such cases, or in cases where the notified body is aware of circumstances in which the Secretary of State may need to take action pursuant to regulation 61, the notified body shall inform the Secretary of State thereof.
(6) The Secretary of State may request that a UK notified body supply to him any information and documents that the Secretary of State may, having regard to the terms of the Mutual Recognition Agreements, need to supply to a Party to the Mutual Recognition Agreements, and the body shall supply to him any and all information or documents so requested.
(8) A UK notified body shall provide conformity assessment bodies with all the information it is required to provide to those bodies under the Mutual Recognition Agreements.
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E2This version of this provision extends to Northern Ireland only; a separate version has been created for England and Wales and Scotland only
Textual Amendments
F24Words in reg. 47(4)(5) omitted (21.3.2010) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2936), regs. 1(1), 16
F25Reg. 47(9)(10) omitted (21.10.2013) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2327), regs. 1(2), 15
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