{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plugs-and-sockets-etc-safety-regulations-1987/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plugs-and-sockets-etc-safety-regulations-1987/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/603",
  "legislation_title": "The Plugs and Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plugs-and-sockets-etc-safety-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and revocation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Plugs and Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1987.\n(2) These Regulations, except Regulation 5(1), shall come into force on 1st September 1987 in relation to the supply, offering to supply, agreeing to supply, exposing for supply or possessing for supply of goods by the manufacturer or importer into the United Kingdom or, in the case of goods manufactured or imported into the United Kingdom on behalf of another person, by that other person and, subject to that, shall come into force on 1st March 1988.\n(3) Regulation 5(1) shall come into force on 1st September 1988.\n(4) The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1975 and the Electrical Equipment (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1976 shall cease to apply—\n(a) on 1st September 1987 in relation to the sale or possession for the purpose of sale of electrical devices to which these Regulations apply by the manufacturer or importer into Great Britain or, in the case of devices manufactured or imported into Great Britain on behalf of another person, by that other person; and\n(b) on 1st March 1988 in relation to the sale or possession for the purpose of sale of electrical devices to which these Regulations apply by any other person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/1366."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/1208."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/603/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:28:44.600632+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."
}