{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-2008/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-2008/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1597",
  "legislation_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Supply of partly completed machinery: general obligations and prohibition",
  "text": "(1) Before partly completed machinery is placed on the market, the responsible person must ensure that—\n(a) the relevant technical documentation is prepared and made available in accordance with the requirements of Annex VII (Part 7 of Schedule 2), part B;\n(b) assembly instructions are prepared in accordance with Annex VI (Part 6 of Schedule 2);\n(c) a declaration of incorporation has been drawn up in accordance with Annex II (Part 2 of Schedule 2), part 1, section B, and that—\n(i) a copy of it accompanies the machinery; and\n(ii) the original is retained in accordance with Annex II, part 2, second paragraph.\n(2) The assembly instructions and the declaration of incorporation shall accompany partly completed machinery until it is incorporated into machinery.\n(3) After partly completed machinery is incorporated into machinery its assembly instructions and declaration of incorporation shall form part of the technical file for that machinery.\n(4) In order to comply with the requirements of paragraph (1), a responsible person must carry out, or procure the carrying out of, all the necessary research and tests on components, fittings or the partly completed machinery to determine whether, by its design and construction, it is capable of being assembled and used safely.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1597/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:29:27.122747+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."
}