{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-regulations-2002/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/618",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Devices Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Scope of these Regulations",
  "text": "These Regulations shall not apply to—\n(a) medicinal products governed by the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (including medicinal products derived from human blood or human plasma ...);\n(b) human blood, human blood products, plasma or blood cells of human origin;\n(c) devices that incorporate, at the time of placing on the market, human blood, blood products, plasma or blood cells of human origin, except for —\n(i) stable derivatives devices,\n(ii) active implantable medical devices and accessories to such devices, and\n(iii) in vitro diagnostic medical devices and accessories to such devices,;\n(d) transplants or tissues or cells of human origin or products incorporating or derived from tissues or cells of human origin , except for ..., in vitro diagnostic medical devices and accessories to such devices save where medicinal products are incorporated as ancillary to the device;\n(e) transplants or tissues or cells of animal origin, unless—\n(i) a device is manufactured utilising animal tissue which is rendered non-viable or non-viable products derived from animal tissue, or\n(ii) a product is ... an in vitro diagnostic medical device, or an accessory to such a device;\n(f) cosmetic products governed by Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30th November 2009 on cosmetic products; or\n(g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(a) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 3(5)(c)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, regs. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(a) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 3(5)(c)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, regs. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(c) substituted (10.3.2007) by The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/400), regs. 1(a), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(d) inserted (10.3.2007) by The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/400), regs. 1(a), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(d) omitted (21.3.2010) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2936), regs. 1(1), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(d) inserted (21.3.2010) by The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2936), regs. 1(1), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 3(e) substituted (10.3.2007) by The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/400), regs. 1(a), 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(e)(ii) omitted (21.3.2010) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2936), regs. 1(1), 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(f) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 3(5)(d) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, regs. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 3(g) omitted (21.3.2010) by virtue of The Medical Devices (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2936), regs. 1(1), 3(d)"
    },
    {
      "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/3",
    "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."
}