{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-amendment-regulations-1994/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-amendment-regulations-1994/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2063",
  "legislation_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Specific amendments",
  "text": "In regulation 2(2)—\n(a) after the definition of “business” there shall be inserted the definition—\n““CE marking” means a mark consisting of the symbol “CE” set out in the form shown in Schedule 2A hereto:\nProvided that in respect of an item of machinery first supplied in the European Economic Area before 1st January 1997, a responsible person may, for the purposes of regulation 12(1)(d) below but without prejudice to the requirements as to proper affixation in regulation 25(1) below, elect to affix a mark in the form shown in Schedule 2 hereto, followed by the last two figures of the year in which it is affixed;”;\n(b) the definition of “EC mark” shall be omitted;\n(c) after the definition of “relevant machinery” there shall be inserted the definition—\n“;“relevant safety component” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 3(3) below;”;\n(d) in the definition of the word “safe”—\n(i) after the words “relevant machinery” in the first place where they occur there shall be inserted the words “or a relevant safety component” and in the second place where they occur there shall be inserted the words “or the relevant safety component”;\n(ii) after the words “the machinery” there shall be inserted the words “or the safety component”; and\n(iii) after the words “no risk (apart from one reduced to a minimum)” there shall be inserted the words “of its endangering the health of or”;\n(e) after the definition of “safe” there shall be inserted the definition—\n““safety component” means a component, provided that it is not interchangeable equipment, which is supplied separately to fulfil a safety function when in use and the failure or malfunctioning of which endangers the safety or health of exposed persons;”; and\n(f) for the definition of “Schedule 4 machinery” there shall be substituted—\n““Schedule 4 machinery” means—\n(a) machinery which is specified in Annex IV of the Machinery Directive and listed under the heading of “A. Machinery” in Schedule 4 hereto; or\n(b) safety components which are specified in Annex IV of the Machinery Directive and listed under the heading of “B. Safety Components” in Schedule 4 hereto;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2063/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:28:10.463288+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."
}