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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electrical-equipment-for-explosive-atmospheres-certification-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/13",
  "legislation_title": "The Electrical Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres (Certification) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electrical-equipment-for-explosive-atmospheres-certification-regulations-1990",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —\n“certificate of conformity” means the certificate referred to in Article 8 of the Framework Directive except that in relation to the electrical equipment designed for work underground in mines susceptible to firedamp it means the certificate referred to in Article 8 of the Gassy Mines Directive;\n“electrical equipment” means any constituent part of an electrical installation or any other electrical device to which the Framework Directive or the Gassy Mines Directive applies;\n“the First Specific Directive” means Council Directive No.79/196/EEC concerning electrical equipment for use in potentially explosive atmospheres employing certain types of protection, as adapted to technical progress by Commission Directives No.84/47/EEC and 88/571/EEC;\n“the Framework Directive” means Council Directive No.76/117/EEC concerning electrical equipment for use in potentially explosive atmospheres;\n“the Gassy Mines Directive” means Council directive No.82/130/EEC concerning electrical equipment for use in potentially explosive atmospheres in mines susceptible to firedamp, as adapted to technical progress by Commission Directive No.88/35/EEC;\n“harmonised standards” means the standards specified in Annex 1 of the First Specific Directive except that in relation to the electrical equipment designed for work underground in mines susceptible to firedamp it means the standards specified in Annex A (amended in accordance with Annex B) to the Gassy Mines Directive;\n“certification body” means a body appointed for the purposes of regulation 3(1);\n“inspection certificate” means the certificate referred to in Article 9 of the Framework Directive except that in relation to the electrical equipment designed for work underground in mines susceptible to firedamp it means the certificate referred to in Article 9 of the Gassy Mines Directive.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered regulation, is a reference to the regulation so numbered in these Regulations;\n(b) a numbered paragraph, is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation in which that reference appears.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No.L43, 20.2.79, p.20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No.L31, 2.2.84, p.19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No.L311, 17.11.88, p.46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No.L24, 30.1.76, p.45."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJ No.L59, 2.3.82, p.10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "OJ No.L20, 26.1.88, p.28."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2570",
      "affecting_title": "The Electrical Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres (Certification) (Amendment) Regualtions 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Electrical Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres (Certification) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/1998/81",
      "affecting_title": "The Electrical Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres (Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
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      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2550",
      "affecting_title": "The Electrical Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres (Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2550",
      "affecting_title": "The Electrical Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres (Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2377",
      "affecting_title": "The Electrical Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres (Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1166",
      "affecting_title": "The A1 Trunk Road (Islington) Red Route (Prohibition of U-Turn) Traffic Order 1995"
    }
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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."
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