{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electro-medical-equipment-eec-requirements-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electro-medical-equipment-eec-requirements-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1586",
  "legislation_title": "The Electro-medical Equipment (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electro-medical-equipment-eec-requirements-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act of 1968” means the Trade Descriptions Act 1968;\n“the Directive” means Council Directive 84/539/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the member States relating to electro-medical equipment used in human or veterinary medicine;\n“declaration” means a declaration which conforms with the specimen declaration contained in Annex IV to the Directive;\n“electro-medical equipment” means electro-medical equipment listed in Annex II to the Directive which is intended, by its nature, for use in human or veterinary medicine;\n“the reversed epsilon” means a mark which conforms with the specimen mark contained in Annex III to the Directive;\n“supply” has the same meaning as in section 46 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and includes offering to supply, agreeing to supply, exposing for supply and possessing for supply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 300, 19.11.84, p.179."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1987 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/3017",
      "affecting_title": "The Medical Devices Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/3017",
      "affecting_title": "The Medical Devices Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1586/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:58:39.628107+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."
}