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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/noise-emission-in-the-environment-by-equipment-for-use-outdoors-regulations-2001/schedule-12A/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1701",
  "legislation_title": "The Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for use Outdoors Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/noise-emission-in-the-environment-by-equipment-for-use-outdoors-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule/12A/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The body, its director and its staff responsible for carrying out verification operations may be neither the designer, builder, supplier or installer of the equipment nor the authorised representative established in the United Kingdom of any of those parties. They may become involved neither directly nor as authorised representatives in the design, construction, marketing or maintenance of such equipment nor represent the parties engaged in these activities.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not preclude the possibility of exchange of technical information between the manufacturer and the body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 12A inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 26 (with Sch. 8 para. 14) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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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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