{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electromagnetic-compatibility-regulations-2005/regulation-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electromagnetic-compatibility-regulations-2005/regulation-66.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/281",
  "legislation_title": "The Electromagnetic Compatibility Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electromagnetic-compatibility-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/66",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Applications for EC type-examination certificates",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the function of a United Kingdom notified body to determine applications made to it in writing for the issue of EC type-examination certificates from the manufacturer or his authorised representative in respect of authorised descriptions of radiocommunication transmission apparatus.\n(2) Subject to regulation 67, a United Kingdom notified body shall, following receipt of an application in respect of an authorised description of apparatus—\n(a) examine the apparatus and the design thereof;\n(b) subject the apparatus or cause it to be subjected to such tests as the body considers appropriate to determine whether or not the apparatus conforms with the protection requirements in all the circumstances (having regard, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, to the actual or usual electromagnetic environment in which the apparatus is to be used), and, where there is a relevant transposed harmonised standard or a recognised national standard and the body considers it appropriate to apply that standard, such tests as may be provided for thereby.\n(3) Following examination and testing pursuant to paragraph (2) above, the United Kingdom notified body shall determine whether or not the apparatus to which the application relates conforms with the protection requirements.\n(4) Where in the opinion of the United Kingdom notified body the apparatus to which an application relates conforms with the protection requirements, it shall issue an EC type-examination certificate in respect thereof.\n(5) Subject to regulation 71 below, where in the opinion of the United Kingdom notified body the apparatus to which the application relates does not conform with the protection requirements, it shall refuse to issue the EC type-examination certificate, giving written reasons for the refusal.\n(6) An EC type-examination certificate may relate to—\n(a) a single item of apparatus;\n(b) where a number of items are to be produced, a specimen representative of the production envisaged (a “representative”); or\n(c) a number of items or representatives of each such item or representative being variants of the same basic design.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/281/regulation/66",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:10:08.783165+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."
}