{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-control-of-interference-from-apparatus-regulations-2016/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-control-of-interference-from-apparatus-regulations-2016/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/426",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference from Apparatus) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-control-of-interference-from-apparatus-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“apparatus” means any finished appliance or combination of appliances, liable to generate electromagnetic disturbance, or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance, and which generates, or is designed to generate, or is liable to generate fortuitously, electromagnetic energy at frequencies not exceeding 3,000 gigahertz and includes—\n(a) components or sub-assemblies intended for incorporation into an apparatus by an end-user, which are liable to generate electromagnetic disturbance, or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance;\n(b) mobile installations defined as a combination of apparatus and, where applicable, other devices, intended to be moved and operated in a range of locations;\n“the EEA” means the States in the European Union and the other States in the European Economic Area;\n“the Electromagnetic Compatibility Regulations” means the Electromagnetic Compatibility Regulations 2006;\n“the EMC Directive” means Directive 2004/108/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electromagnetic compatibility.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 18.4.2016, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/3418."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No.L390, 31.12.04, p 24."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/426/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:01.899421+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."
}