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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pyrotechnic-articles-safety-regulations-2015/schedule-5/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1553",
  "legislation_title": "The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pyrotechnic-articles-safety-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A conformity assessment body must have at its disposal—\n(a) personnel with technical knowledge and sufficient and appropriate experience to perform the conformity assessment activities;\n(b) descriptions of procedures in accordance with which conformity assessment is carried out, ensuring the transparency and the ability of reproduction of those procedures, and have appropriate policies and procedures in place that distinguish between tasks it carries out as an approved body and other activities;\n(c) procedures for the performance of activities which take due account of the size of an undertaking, the sector in which it operates, its structure, the degree of complexity of the product technology in question and the mass or serial nature of the process.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 9(b) substituted (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. 42(b) (with Sch. 19 para. 36) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 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"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1553/schedule/5/paragraph/9",
    "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."
}