The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992

Retention of documentation

24.—(1) A responsible person who issues EC declarations of conformity or declarations of incorporation, as the case may be, in the United Kingdom shall retain on his premises the technical file or a copy of the technical file submitted to an approved body, as the case may be, which relates to the relevant machinery in respect of which such declarations are made so that such file is available to the enforcement authorities for a period of 10 years beginning with the date on which the last unit of relevant machinery to which the file relates is produced.

(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall require the responsible person to keep the documents comprising a technical file available as a permanent file provided that all the required documents are individually available and can be assembled into a technical file.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that for the purposes of enforcing these Regulations a technical file is a document or record and shall be construed accordingly in any of the statutory provisions applied to these Regulations pursuant to Schedule 6 hereto.