The Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 1992

Application and transitional provisions

6.—(1) These Regulations, except for regulation 12(1) and Schedules 4 and 5, apply to applicable terminal equipment which is not excluded from their application by paragraphs (3) and (4) below.

(2) Regulation 12(1) and Schedules 4 and 5 apply to connection-capable equipment and radio connection-capable equipment except where such equipment was first supplied or put into service within the Community before 6th November 1992.

(3) Save for regulations 2(2), 3(2) and 4 above and this paragraph, these Regulations do not apply to terminal equipment which is approved under an approval given before 6th November 1992 under section 22 or 84 of the 1984 Act in respect of terminal equipment which satisfies a specification which is a common type approval specification within the meaning of Article 2.14 of Council Directive 86/361/EEC (including a NET within the meaning of Article 2.15 thereof) where such approval is in force on the date on which the equipment is supplied or put into service, as the case may be (in these Regulations referred to as “exempt terminal equipment”).

(4) These Regulations do not apply to terminal equipment which the supplier believes (with reasonable cause) will not be put into service either in the United Kingdom or in another member State.