{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electrical-equipment-safety-regulations-2016/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electrical-equipment-safety-regulations-2016/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1101",
  "legislation_title": "The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electrical-equipment-safety-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Retention of technical documentation and EU declaration of conformity",
  "text": "An importer must, for a period of 10 years beginning on the day on which electrical equipment is placed on the market, keep and, upon request, make available to an enforcing authority the following in relation to the electrical equipment—\n(a) a copy of the EU declaration of conformity; and\n(b) the technical documentation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 21(a) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 23 para. 13 (with Sch. 23 para. 30) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 21 heading omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 23 para. 13 (with Sch. 23 para. 30) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1101/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:12.052479+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."
}