{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radio-equipment-and-telecommunications-terminal-equipment-regulations-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radio-equipment-and-telecommunications-terminal-equipment-regulations-2000/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/730",
  "legislation_title": "The Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radio-equipment-and-telecommunications-terminal-equipment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Scope and Exclusions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), these Regulations shall apply to all apparatus.\n(2) Where apparatus incorporates, as an integral part or as an accessory—\n(a) a medical device; or\n(b) an active implantable medical device,\nthe apparatus shall be governed by these Regulations without prejudice to the application of Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993; or Council Directive 90/385/EEC of 20 June 1990; or the Medical Devices Regulations 1994; or the Active Implantable Medical Devices Regulations 1992.\n(3) Where apparatus constitutes a component or a separate technical unit of a vehicle, the apparatus shall be governed by these Regulations without prejudice to the application of Council Directive 72/245/EEC of 20 June 1972; or Council Directive 92/61/EEC of 30 June 1992; or the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) Regulations 1980; or the Motorcycle (EC Type Approval) Regulations 1995.\n(4) These Regulations shall not apply to apparatus exclusively used for the purposes of public security, defence, State security (including the economic well-being of the State) or the activities of the State in the area of criminal law.\n(5) These Regulations shall not apply to equipment listed in Schedule 1.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (with savings) (26.12.2017) by The Radio Equipment Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1206), regs. 1, 78(1) (with regs. 3-5, 77, 78(2)); and Regulations (as saved) modified (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2017/1206, reg. 78(2)(2A) (as amended by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 29 para. 45(3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) substituted (25.7.2003) by The Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1903), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) substituted (25.7.2003) by The Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1903), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 8.4.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJL No. 169, 12.7.1993, p 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJL No. 189, 20.7.1990, p 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3017."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/3146."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJL No. 152, 6.7.1972, p 15 as last amended by Commission Directive 95/54/EC (OJL 266.8.11.1995, p 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "OJL No. 225, 10.8.1992, p 72."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1182."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/1513."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/730/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:51.704229+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."
}