{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recreational-craft-regulations-2017/regulation-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recreational-craft-regulations-2017/regulation-43.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/737",
  "legislation_title": "The Recreational Craft Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recreational-craft-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/43",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Duty to carry out the post construction assessment",
  "text": "(1) Before putting a product into service a private importer must apply the procedure referred to in regulation 48 (requirements of the post-construction assessment) to that product if the manufacturer of the product has not already carried out the conformity assessment for the product concerned.\n(2) Any person must, before placing or putting into service on the market—\n(a) a propulsion engine or watercraft which has had a major engine modification or major craft conversion; or\n(b) a watercraft which has had a change in its intended purpose so that it falls within scope of these Regulations\napply the procedure referred to in regulation 48 (requirements of the post-construction assessment).\n(3) Any person placing on the market a watercraft built for own use before the end of the five-year period beginning on the day on which the watercraft was put into service, must apply the procedure referred to in regulation 48 before placing the watercraft on the market.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 43 in force at 3.8.2017, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/737/regulation/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:09:45.095348+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."
}