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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equipment-and-protective-systems-intended-for-use-in-potentially-explosive-atmospheres-regulations-2016/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1107",
  "legislation_title": "The Equipment and Protective Systems Intended for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equipment-and-protective-systems-intended-for-use-in-potentially-explosive-atmospheres-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Technical documentation and conformity assessment",
  "text": "Before placing a product on the market or using it for their own purposes, a manufacturer must—\n(a) carry out the relevant conformity assessment procedure or have a relevant conformity assessment procedure carried out; and\n(b) draw up the technical documentation referred to—\n(i) for a product in respect of which the conformity assessment procedure in regulation 39(1)(a) is being carried out, in paragraph 3(c) of Part 1 of Schedule 3A to these Regulations;\n(ii) for a product in respect of which the conformity assessment procedure in regulation 39(1)(b) is being carried out, in paragraph 3(c) of Part 1 of Schedule 3A to these Regulations;\n(iii) for a product in respect of which the conformity assessment procedure in regulation 39(1)(c) is being carried out, in paragraph 2 of Part 6 of Schedule 3A to these Regulations;\n(iv) for a product in respect of which the conformity assessment procedure in regulation 39(1)(d) is being carried out, in paragraph 2 of Part 7 of Schedule 3A to these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 25 para. 5 (with Sch. 25 para. 34) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 8.12.2016, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1107/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:07.920209+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."
}