{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-2025/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-2025/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348275520",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Obligations of an importer and a distributor",
  "text": "(1) An importer which makes available on the market any marine equipment accompanied by a United Kingdom declaration of conformity provided under regulation 12 must ensure that—\n(a) its name,\n(b) registered trade name or trade mark, and\n(c) the address at which it can be contacted,\nis on the marine equipment or, where that is not possible, on the packaging of the marine equipment or in a document accompanying the equipment or both, as appropriate.\n(2) The obligations of a manufacturer under these Regulations apply to an importer or a distributor as if that person were a manufacturer where the importer or distributor—\n(a) makes equipment available on the market under the importer or distributor's own name or trade mark; or\n(b) modifies equipment already made available on the market in such a way that compliance with applicable international standards or applicable UK standards may be affected.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348275520/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:36.122638+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}