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Regulation 4 Design and manufacture in accordance with essential safety requirements and sound engineering practiceE1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

Before placing a category A vessel on the market, a manufacturer must ensure that the vessel has been designed and manufactured in accordance with the essential safety requirements.

(2)

Before placing a category B vessel on the market, a manufacturer must ensure that the vessel has been designed and manufactured in accordance with F1sound engineering practice.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 4(2) 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. 21 para. 4 (with Sch. 21 para. 37) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Extent

E1

This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

S.I. 1989/1327.

F2

1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7). The enabling powers of section 2(2) were extended by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c.51).

F3

Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 and amended by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008.