The Low Voltage Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1989

Conformity with other standards and requirements

7.—(1) Subject to regulation 8 below, where there are no relevant harmonised standards, electrical equipment which satisfies international safety provisions shall be taken to satisfy the requirements of regulation 5(1) above.

(2) Subject to regulation 8 below, where there are no relevant harmonised standards and no relevant international safety provisions, electrical equipment which–

(a) has been manufactured in accordance with the national safety provisions applicable to that equipment in a member State and the compliance of the equipment with such provisions results in the equipment being at the time when the equipment is supplied in the United Kingdom at least as safe as it would be if it satisfied the requirements of regulation 5(1) above; or

(b) satisfies the safety provisions contained in standards published by national standards bodies which are approved in accordance with the provisions of the Approval of Safety Standards Regulations 1987(1) and which are appropriate to that equipment,

shall be taken to satisfy the requirements of regulation 5(1) above.

(3) Electrical equipment to which the requirements of the relevant statutory provisions (as defined in section 53(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974)(2) or article 2(2) of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(3)) apply shall be taken to satisfy the requirements of regulation 5(1) above if the requirements of those provisions are satisfied in relation to that equipment.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1911.

(2)

1974 c. 37.

(3)

S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I.9).