# The Household Appliances (Noise Emission) Regulations 1990, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings —
“appliance” means a household appliance consisting of any machine, part of a machine or installation manufactured principally for use in dwellings, including cellars, garages and other outbuildings and includes in particular household appliances for upkeep, cleaning purposes, preparation and strage of foodstuffs, production and distribution of heat and cold and air conditioning, but excluding —
(i) appliances which are integrated parts of a building or its installations such as equipment for air conditioning, heating and ventilating (except household fans, cooker hoods and free-standing heating appliances), oil burners for central heating and pumps for water supply and for sewage systems;
(ii) equipment components such as motors;
(iii) electroacoustic appliances;
“batch” means all appliances of the same model or type produced at one operation under uniform conditions by the same manufacturer;
“the Directive” means Council Directive 86/594/EEC on airborne noise emitted by household appliances;
“harmonised standard” means a standard laid down and adopted by the European Committee for Standardisation or the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation or both, on instructions from the Commission of the Communities, in accordance with Council Directive 83/189/EEC laying down procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulationsas amended;
“importer” means a person established in a member State who has imported an appliance into a member State which has been manufactured by a person who is not established in a member State;
“manufacturer” means a manufacturer of an appliance established in a member State;
“market” means supply by way of sale, lease, hire or hire-purchase, whether as principal or agent for another; and
“relevant national standard” and “relevant national technical regulations” means respectively a standard which is applicable, and regulations which are applicable, to the appliance in question and of which the reference numbers are published —
(a) in the United Kingdom, by the Secretary of State in such manner as he considers appropriate, or
(b) in another member State.
(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation so numbered in these Regulations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/161/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/household-appliances-noise-emission-regulations-1990/regulation-2
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