{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-2025/regulation-9",
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  "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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Application for United Kingdom conformity approval",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), for equipment listed in Annex 1 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874, the manufacturer must apply to an approved body for United Kingdom conformity approval in accordance with the procedures set out in Schedule 2 and must ensure that United Kingdom conformity assessment is carried out in respect of all such marine equipment in accordance with the procedures specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) The procedures mentioned in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) the United Kingdom conformity assessment examination as outlined in Part 1 (module B) of Schedule 2, in which case, before being made available on the market all such marine equipment must be subject to—\n(i) production-quality assurance as outlined in Part 2 (module D) of Schedule 2;\n(ii) product-quality assurance as outlined in Part 3 (module E) of Schedule 2; or\n(iii) product verification as outlined in Part 4 (module F) of Schedule 2; or\n(b) where sets of such marine equipment are produced individually or in small quantities and not in series or in mass, the conformity assessment procedure may be the unit verification as set out in Part 5 (module G) of Schedule 2.\n(3) A manufacturer must not apply under paragraph (1) where an application for United Kingdom conformity approval has been made (whether by that manufacturer or another), in respect of that equipment, under these Regulations and that application has not been withdrawn.\n(4) An application under paragraph (1) must be—\n(a) in writing; and\n(b) accompanied by the documentation required by Schedule 2.",
  "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/9",
    "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."
}