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The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 in Northern Ireland

S.I. 2008/1597 · Made 19 June 2008 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Health And Safety

Made 19th June 2008

Laid before Parliament 23rd June 2008

Coming into force 29th December 2009

M1M2The Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to machinery, including component parts of machines, components or equipment to be attached to or used with machines, and sub-assemblies to be incorporated into or assembled with machines, and in relation to measures relating to lifts and the safety components for use in lifts.

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act, makes the following Regulations.C1

Annotations to the whole text

Marginal citations

M1

S.I. 2007/1679 (machinery etc) and S.I. 1996/1912 (lifts etc).

M2

1972 c.68.

Modifications

C1

Regulations modified (E.W.S.) (19.6.2021) by The Conformity Assessment (Mutual Recognition Agreements) and Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/730), regs. 1, 4, Sch. 1 para. 2

Contents

  1. Part 1: Preliminary
  2. 1Citation, commencement and revocation
  3. 2ADesignated standard
  4. Part 2: Application
  5. 4Products to which Regulations apply; definition of “machinery”
  6. 6Partly completed machinery
  7. Part 3: General prohibitions and obligations
  8. 8Supply of partly completed machinery: general obligations and prohibition
  9. 9Putting machinery into service Repealed
  10. Chapter: Conformity assessment procedures
  11. 10Machinery not referred to in Annex IV
  12. Part 4: CE Marking UK Marking
  13. 16AApproved bodies
  14. 16BApproved body designation
  15. 16CMonitoring
  16. Part 6: Enforcement
  17. 20General duties and powers of enforcement authorities
  18. 23Defence of due diligence
  19. 24Liability of persons other than the principal offender
  20. Part 7: Miscellaneous
  21. 25Amendment of the Lifts Regulations 1997
  22. 26Other amendments
  23. 27Consequential disapplication of domestic health and safety law
  24. 28Time-limited derogation for impact machinery
  25. 31Regulation 31
  26. Signature
  27. Schedule 1REGULATIONS REVOKED
  28. Schedule 2: ANNEXES TO THE DIRECTIVE
  29. Part 1: Annex I: Essential health and safety requirements relating to the design and construction of machinery
  30. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
  31. 1. ESSENTIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
  32. 2. SUPPLEMENTARY ESSENTIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF MACHINERY
  33. 3. SUPPLEMENTARY ESSENTIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS TO OFFSET HAZARDS DUE TO THE MOBILITY OF MACHINERY
  34. 4. SUPPLEMENTARY ESSENTIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS TO OFFSET HAZARDS DUE TO LIFTING OPERATIONS
  35. 5. SUPPLEMENTARY ESSENTIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR MACHINERY INTENDED FOR UNDERGROUND WORK
  36. 6. SUPPLEMENTARY ESSENTIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR MACHINERY PRESENTING PARTICULAR HAZARDS DUE TO THE LIFTING OF PERSONS
  37. 2Annex II: Declarations
  38. Part 3: Annex III: CE marking Annex III UK marking
  39. Paragraph
  40. 5Annex V: Indicative list of safety components
  41. Part 6: Annex VI: Assembly instructions for partly completed machinery
  42. Paragraph
  43. Paragraph
  44. 7Annex VII: Technical files
  45. 8Annex VIII: Assessment of conformity with internal checks on the manufacture of machinery
  46. Paragraph
  47. Part 10: Annex X: Full quality assurance
  48. Paragraph
  49. Schedule 3: PRODUCTS TO WHICH THE REGULATIONS DO NOT APPLY
  50. 2Paragraph 2
  51. Schedule 4: APPEALS AGAINST NOTIFIED APPROVED BODY DECISIONS
  52. 2Paragraph 2
  53. 3Paragraph 3
  54. 4Paragraph 4
  55. 5Paragraph 5
  56. 6Paragraph 6
  57. 7Paragraph 7
  58. 8Paragraph 8
  59. 9Paragraph 9
  60. 10Paragraph 10
  61. 11Paragraph 11
  62. 12Paragraph 12
  63. 13Paragraph 13
  64. 14Paragraph 14
  65. 15Paragraph 15
  66. 16Paragraph 16
  67. 17Paragraph 17
  68. Schedule 5: ENFORCEMENT
  69. Part: General duties of enforcement authorities
  70. 1Paragraph 1
  71. 2Paragraph 2
  72. 3Paragraph 3
  73. 3AParagraph 3A
  74. 4Paragraph 4
  75. 5Paragraph 5
  76. 6Paragraph 6
  77. Part: Powers of the Health and Safety Executive, the Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Office of Rail and Road as enforcement authorities
  78. 7Paragraph 7
  79. Part: Powers of the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland as an enforcement authority
  80. 9Paragraph 9
  81. Part: Powers of other enforcement authorities
  82. 11Paragraph 11
  83. 12Paragraph 12
  84. 13Paragraph 13
  85. Part: Forfeiture: England and Wales and Northern Ireland
  86. 14Paragraph 14
  87. Part: Forfeiture: Scotland
  88. 15Paragraph 15
  89. Part: Duty of enforcement authority to inform Secretary of State of action taken
  90. Part: Savings
  91. 17Paragraph 17
  92. 18Paragraph 18
  93. Schedule 6: AMENDMENTS TO THE LIFTS REGULATIONS 1997
  94. 1Paragraph 1
  95. 2Paragraph 2
  96. 3Paragraph 3
  97. 4Paragraph 4
  98. 5Paragraph 5
  99. 6Paragraph 6
  100. 7Paragraph 7
  101. Schedule 7: OTHER AMENDMENTS
  102. 1The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
  103. 2The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998
  104. 3The Pressure Equipment Regulations 1999 Repealed
  105. 4The Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for use Outdoors Regulations 2001
  106. 5The Enterprise Act 2002 (Part 9 Restrictions on Disclosure of Information) (Specification) Order 2004
  107. 6The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Provision and Use of Work Equipment) Regulations 2006
  108. 7The Legislative and Regulatory Reform (Regulatory Functions) Order 2007
  109. Explanatory note