The Placing on the Market and Supervision of Transfers of Explosives Regulations 1993

Notified bodies

6.—(1) The Secretary of State may from time to time appoint in writing such qualified bodies as he thinks fit to be notified bodies for the purposes of these Regulations.

(2) An appointment under this regulation may relate to all or any description or class of explosives, may be subject to conditions or to limit of time, and may be revoked in writing at any time.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation a body is qualified if it meets the criteria set out in Annex III (minimum criteria to be taken into account by member States for the notification of bodies) or if it meets the assessment criteria laid down by a relevant harmonised standard.

(4) The Secretary of State shall—

(a) notify the Commission and the other member States of any body appointed under this regulation;

(b) revoke the appointment of any such body if it appears to the Secretary of State that that body is no longer qualified; and

(c) notify the Commission and the other member States of the revocation of any such appointment.

(5) A body appointed by the Secretary of State under this regulation, after agreeing with the applicant any fee in respect of the work to be undertaken by it, shall perform the functions of a notified body under the Civil Uses Directive.