The Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022

Amendment of the Measuring Instruments Regulations 2016

18.—(1) The Measuring Instruments Regulations 2016(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 2A of Schedule 3 (transitional provisions relating to UK withdrawal from the EU) after paragraph (7) insert—

“(8) Subject to paragraph (9), where before 11pm on 31st December 2024—

(a) a regulated measuring instrument has not been placed on the market; and

(b) a manufacturer has taken any action under the conformity assessment procedure that applies to that product in accordance with Article 17 of the Directive

that action has effect as if it had been done under the applicable conformity assessment procedure referred to in regulation 39(1).

(9) Paragraph (8) does not apply—

(a) after the expiry of the validity of any certificate issued pursuant to the applicable conformity assessment procedure; and

(b) in any event, after 31st December 2027.”.

(1)

S.I. 2016/1153; they were made in part 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; they were amended in respect of England and Wales and Scotland by S.I. 2019/696 and S.I. 2021/1273; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.