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14.—(1) A manufacturer may, by written mandate, appoint a person as their authorised representative to perform specified tasks on the manufacturer’s behalf.
(2) The mandate must allow the authorised representative to do at least the following in relation to electrical equipment covered by the mandate—
(a)perform the manufacturer’s obligations under regulation 7 (retention of technical documentation and EU declaration of conformity); and
(b)perform the manufacturer’s obligations under regulation 13 (provision of information and cooperation).
(3) The obligations laid down in regulation 4 (design and manufacture in accordance with safety objectives) and regulation 5(a) (technical documentation) must not form part of an authorised representative’s mandate.
(4) An authorised representative must comply with all the duties imposed on the manufacturer in relation to each obligation under these Regulations that the representative is appointed by the manufacturer to perform and, accordingly as far as those duties, as well as the penalties for failure to comply with those duties, are concerned, references in these Regulations (except in this regulation) to the manufacturer are to be taken as including a reference to the authorised representative.
(5) A manufacturer who has appointed an authorised representative to perform on the manufacturer’s behalf a task under these Regulations remains responsible for the proper performance of that obligation.
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