{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-terminal-equipment-regulations-1992/regulation-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-terminal-equipment-regulations-1992/regulation-45.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2423",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-terminal-equipment-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/45",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Modifications to approved quality systems",
  "text": "(1) Where a manufacturer intends to update a full quality assurance approved quality system approved by a United Kingdom notified body, the manufacturer or his authorised representative shall apply to that body for the approval of the quality system as modified in accordance with the proposed modifications.\n(2) Subject to regulation 54 below, the United Kingdom notified body shall, on application made pursuant to paragraph (1) above, evaluate the proposed modifications and decide whether the amended quality system will satisfy the requirements of regulation 42 above or whether a re-assessment pursuant to regulation 43 would be required to evaluate the system as modified in accordance with the proposals.\n(3) The United Kingdom notified body shall inform the manufacturer by notice in writing of the decision on whether to approve the proposed modifications to the quality system, and such notice shall contain the conclusions of the examination and the reasoned assessment decision.\n(4) Where a United Kingdom notified body informs the manufacturer pursuant to paragraph (3) above that it has decided to approve the proposed modifications to an approved quality system—\n(a) the approval of the quality system shall have effect as if the modifications were made; and\n(b) the written undertaking referred to in regulation 44 shall have effect as if it were an undertaking to fulfil the obligations arising out of the quality system as approved as so modified and to uphold it as so modified so that it remains adequate and effective.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2423/regulation/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:15:17.941811+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."
}