{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pyrotechnic-articles-safety-regulations-2015/schedule-2A/paragraph-5n4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pyrotechnic-articles-safety-regulations-2015/schedule-2A/paragraph-5n4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1553",
  "legislation_title": "The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pyrotechnic-articles-safety-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2A/paragraph/5n4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Verification\nAn approved body chosen by the manufacturer shall carry out appropriate examinations and tests, set out in the relevant designated standards and/or equivalent tests set out in other relevant technical specifications, to check the conformity of the pyrotechnic article with the applicable requirements of these Regulations, or have them carried out. In the absence of such a designated standard the approved body concerned shall decide on the appropriate tests to be carried out.\nThe approved body shall issue a certificate of conformity in respect of the examinations and tests carried out and shall affix its identification number to the approved pyrotechnic article, or have it affixed under its responsibility.\nThe manufacturer shall keep the certificates of conformity at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the pyrotechnic article has been placed on the market.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2A 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. 19 para. 39 (with Sch. 19 para. 36) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1553/schedule/2A/paragraph/5n4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:32.819882+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."
}