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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equipment-and-protective-systems-intended-for-use-in-potentially-explosive-atmospheres-regulations-2016/schedule-3A/part-7/paragraph-4",
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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": "schedule/3A/part/7/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Verification",
  "text": "An approved body chosen by the manufacturer shall carry out appropriate examinations and tests, set out in the relevant designated standards and/or equivalent tests set out in other relevant technical specifications, to check the conformity of the product with the applicable requirements of these Regulations, or have them carried out. In the absence of such a designated standard the approved body concerned shall decide on the appropriate tests to be carried out.\nThe approved body shall issue a certificate of conformity in respect of the examinations and tests carried out and shall affix its identification number to the approved product, or have it affixed under its responsibility.\nThe manufacturer shall keep the certificates of conformity at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the product has been placed on the market.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3A inserted (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. 40 (with Sch. 25 para. 34) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:07.920209+00:00"
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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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