Regulation 11 General duty
Subject to paragraph (3) below, no person shall supply relevant machinery unless the requirements of regulation 12 below are complied with in relation thereto.
Where a person—
being the manufacturer of relevant machinery, himself puts that relevant machinery into service in the course of a business; or
having imported relevant machinery from a country or territory outside the Community, himself puts that relevant machinery into service in the course of a business,
for the purposes of these Regulations that person shall be deemed to have supplied that relevant machinery to himself.
The requirements of paragraph (1) above do not apply in relation to supply by any person of relevant machinery which has previously been put into service in the Community.