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5. Until the end of 1996, sections 13, 14, 16 and 17 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987, regulation 10(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992, regulation 4(3)(e) of each of the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 and the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 and regulation 4 above shall not be applied in respect of a failure of a product to comply with the current version of the Directive in any particular if it would have complied with the previous version of the Directive in that particular; and in this regulation—
(a)“the current version of the Directive” means Council Directive 89/686/EEC of 21st December 1989 as amended as set out in regulation 3(1) above, and
(b)“the previous version of the Directive” means that Directive before its amendment by Council Directive 93/68/EEC of 22nd July 1993.
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