{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-regulations-2002/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-regulations-2002/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/618",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Devices Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Manufacturers etc. and conformity assessment procedures for general medical devices",
  "text": "(1) A manufacturer of a relevant device or, where applicable, their UK responsible person who is required to follow, or follows or has followed a conformity assessment procedure set out in this Part shall observe the manufacturer’s obligations set out in that procedure that apply to him.\n(2) A manufacturer of a relevant device or, where applicable, their UK responsible person shall, when following a conformity assessment procedure, take account of the results of any assessment or verification operations which have been carried out in accordance with this Part at an intermediate stage of manufacture of the device.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 4(8)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 21); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 4(8)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 21); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 17(3) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 4(8)(c) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 21); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 17(4)(5) omitted (21.10.2013) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2327), regs. 1(2), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/618/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:11:50.089580+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."
}