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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recreational-craft-regulations-2017/schedule-15/part-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/737",
  "legislation_title": "The Recreational Craft Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recreational-craft-regulations-2017",
  "path": "schedule/15/part/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Examination, etc. by approved body",
  "text": "(1) The approved body must examine the technical documentation and supporting evidence to assess the adequacy of the technical design of the product.\n(2) The approved body must—\n(a) verify that the specimen has been manufactured in conformity with the technical documentation, and identify the elements which have been designed in accordance with the applicable provisions of the relevant designated standards or technical specifications, as well as the elements which have been designed without applying the relevant provisions of those standards or specifications;\n(b) carry out appropriate examinations and tests, or have them carried out, to check whether, where the manufacturer has chosen to apply the solutions in the relevant designated standards or technical specifications, these have been applied correctly;\n(c) carry out appropriate examinations and tests, or have them carried out, to check whether, where the solutions in the relevant designated standards or technical specifications have not been applied, the solutions adopted by the manufacturer meet the essential requirements covered by the standards or specifications; and\n(d) agree with the manufacturer on a location where the examinations and tests will be carried out.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 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. 28 para. 54 (with Sch. 28 para. 41) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/737/schedule/15/part/3/paragraph/4",
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  },
  "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."
}