The Treatment of Conformity Assessment Bodies (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Regulations 2024

Amendment to the Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 2016

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6.  For paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 (requirements to be met by conformity assessment bodies in order to become approved bodies) to the Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 2016(1) substitute—

2.(1) A conformity assessment body must have legal personality and must be established in—

(a)the United Kingdom; or

(b)the territory of a party to the CPTPP.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1) “the CPTPP” has the meaning set out in section 1 of the Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Act 2024..

(1)

S.I. 2016/1025. Schedule 3 was inserted by S.I. 2019/470; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant; they were made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and are accordingly saved by virtue of section 2(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.