The Gas Appliances (Enforcement) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2018

Application, transitional provisions, savings and revocationU.K.

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2.—(1) These Regulations apply to appliances and fittings placed on the market on or after 21st April 2018.

(2) These Regulations do not apply to—

(a)appliances specifically designed for the uses and purposes specified in Article 1(3); or

(b)appliances and fittings which fall within Article 1(4).

(3) Nothing in these Regulations prevents the showing of appliances or fittings at trade fairs, exhibitions, demonstrations or the like, which are not in compliance with the provisions of EU Regulation 2016/426, provided that a visible sign clearly indicates that such appliances or fittings do not comply with those provisions and that they are not for sale until they are made compliant.

(4) [F1The] [F1Subject to the modifications made in paragraph (4A), the] 1995 Regulations continue to apply, as if they had not been revoked, to appliances and fittings placed on the market before 21st April 2018, and in any such case the consequential amendments made by Schedule 5 do not apply.

[F2(4A) The modifications referred to in paragraph (4) are as follows—

(a)any reference to the “Community” is to be read as including the United Kingdom;

(b)any reference to “member State” is to be read as though the United Kingdom were a member State;

(c)regulation 10(6) is to be read as if the words from “and, on request made by it” to the end were omitted;

(d)regulation 13(2) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) were omitted;

(e)regulation 15(2) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) were omitted.]

(5) The 1995 Regulations are revoked save to the extent required to give effect to paragraph (4).

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