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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-merchant-shipping-marine-equipment-regulations-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-29",
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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": "schedule/2/paragraph/29",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Technical documentation",
  "text": "(1) A manufacturer must draw up the technical documentation and make it available to the approved body referred to in paragraph 31.\n(2) The technical documentation referred to in sub-paragraph (1) must—\n(a) make it possible to assess the product's conformity with the relevant requirements of these Regulations and must include an analysis and assessment of the risks;\n(b) specify the applicable requirements in respect of the product and cover, as far as relevant for the assessment, the design, manufacture and operation of the product;\n(c) contain, wherever applicable, at least the following elements—\n(i) a general description of the product;\n(ii) conceptual design and manufacturing drawings and schemes of component, sub-assemblies and circuits;\n(iii) descriptions and explanations necessary for the understanding of those drawings and schemes and the operation of the product;\n(iv) a list of the requirements and testing standards which are applicable to the marine equipment concerned in accordance with these Regulations and descriptions of the solutions adopted to meet those requirements;\n(v) results of design calculations made and examinations carried out;\n(vi) test reports.\n(3) A manufacturer must keep the technical documentation at the disposal of the Secretary of State for a period of at least 10 years after the United Kingdom conformity mark has been affixed on the last product manufactured and in no case for a period shorter than the expected life of the marine equipment concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348275520/schedule/2/paragraph/29",
    "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."
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