{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-equipment-safety-regulations-2016/regulation-88A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-equipment-safety-regulations-2016/regulation-88A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1105",
  "legislation_title": "The Pressure Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-equipment-safety-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/88A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "88A",
  "heading": "Transitional provision in relation to EU Exit",
  "text": "(1) In this regulation—\n“pre-exit period” means the period beginning with the commencement date and ending immediately before IP completion day;\n“product” means pressure equipment or an assembly required, under regulation 6 or 7, to satisfy the essential safety requirements set out in Schedule 2 to which these Regulations apply on or after IP completion day.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where a product was made available on the market during the pre-exit period, despite the amendments made by Schedule 24 to the Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, any obligation to which a person was subject under these Regulations as they had effect immediately before IP completion day, continues to have effect as it did immediately before IP completion day, in relation to that product.\n(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to—\n(a) any obligation of any enforcing authority to inform the European Commission or the member States of any matter; or\n(b) any obligation to take action outside of the United Kingdom in respect of that product.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 88A 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. 24 para. 41 (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2 and by S.I. 2020/852, reg. 4(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(m)(viii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 88A(1) substituted (31.12.2022) by The Product Safety and Metrology (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1393), regs. 1(1), 15(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 88A(4)-(6) omitted (1.10.2024) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/696), regs. 1(2), 15(4) (with reg. 23)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1105/regulation/88A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:08.933092+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."
}