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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clinical-thermometers-eec-requirements-regulations-1993/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2360",
  "legislation_title": "The Clinical Thermometers (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clinical-thermometers-eec-requirements-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations except where the context otherwise requires—\n“approved body” means a body approved by the Secretary of State under regulation 6;\n“clinical thermometer” means a thermometer to which these Regulations apply in accordance with regulation 3;\n“the Directive” means Council Directive No. 76/764/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the member States on clinical mercury–in–glass, maximum reading thermometers, as amended by Council Directive No. 83/128/EEC and Commission Directive No. 84/414/EEC;\n“inspector” means a person authorised in writing by the Secretary of State to be an inspector for the purposes of these Regulations;\n“the 1988 Regulations” means the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988;\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L262, 27.9.1976, p.139."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L91, 9.4.1983, p.29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L228, 25.8.1984, p.25."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/186, amended by S.I. 1988/1128 and 1992/1579."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2360/regulation/2",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}