6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), provisions of these Regulations which refer to “partly completed machinery” apply to drive systems and other assemblies which—
(a)are almost machinery;
(b)cannot in themselves perform a specific application; and
(c)are only intended to be incorporated into or assembled with other machinery or other partly completed machinery or equipment, thereby forming machinery.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to assemblies of the kind described in paragraph (1) which—
(a)are placed on the market before 29th December 2009; or
(b)are only intended to be incorporated into or assembled with other products to form a product which falls within any of the categories of products specified in Schedule 3 as being products to which these Regulations do not apply.