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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-1992/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-1992/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3073",
  "legislation_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Approved bodies",
  "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations, an approved body is a body responsible for carrying out functions relating to the conformity assessment procedures set out in Article 8 of the Machinery Directive and described in regulations 14 and 15 above which has been—\n(a) appointed as a United Kingdom approved body pursuant to regulation 18 below; or\n(b) appointed by a member State other than the United Kingdom,\nand in the case of either (a) or (b) above has been notified by the member State concerned to the Commission and the other member States pursuant to Article 9(1) of the Machinery Directive.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2063",
      "affecting_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/831",
      "affecting_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3073/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:10:11.744019+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."
}