The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 696

SCHEDULE 29 Amendment of the Radio Equipment Regulations 2017 and related amendments

PART 1 Amendments to the Radio Equipment Regulations 2017

Amendment to regulation 78

45.—(1) Regulation 78 (revocations and savings) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) The Regulations referred to in paragraph (1) continue to apply, as if they had not been revoked, to any equipment placed on the market in accordance with those Regulations before the commencement date, subject to the modifications made in paragraph (2A).”.

(3) Before paragraph (3), insert—

“(2A) The modifications referred to in paragraph (2) are as follows—

(a) references to the Community are to be read as including the United Kingdom;

(b) except where “Member State” first appears in regulation 14 (notified bodies), references to Member State are to be read as including the United Kingdom;

(c) the references to European Union and EEA State in regulation 14 are both to be read as including the United Kingdom;

(d) regulation 18A (duty of enforcement authority to inform Secretary of State of action taken), is to be read without the words “, with a view to this information being passed by her to the Commission.”;

(e) Schedule 5 applies as if paragraph 6 were omitted.”.