{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-regulations-2002/regulation-47A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-regulations-2002/regulation-47A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/618",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Devices Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/47A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47A",
  "heading": "Register of approved bodies",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must ensure that—\n(a) each approved body is assigned an identification number; and\n(b) there is a register of—\n(i) approved bodies;\n(ii) their approved body identification number;\n(iii) the tasks for which they have been designated; and\n(iv) any restrictions on those tasks.\n(2) The Secretary of State must ensure that the register referred to in paragraph (1) is maintained and made publicly available.\n(3) The Secretary of State may authorise the United Kingdom Accreditation Service to compile and maintain the register in accordance with paragraph (1)(b).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 47A inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Medical Devices (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/791), regs. 1(1), 7(7) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1478, reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 47(7)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "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/47A",
    "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."
}