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(1) The Plugs and Sockets etc (Safety) Regulations 1994M1 are amended as follows.
(2) Omit regulation 11.
(3) For the heading of regulation 12 substitute “Prohibitions on supply etc. of conversion plugs”.
(4) Omit regulation 12(1) and (2).
(5) For regulation 12(3) substitute—
“(3) No person shall supply, offer for supply, agree to supply, expose for supply or possess for supply any conversion plug unless that conversion plug is of a type approved by a notified body for use in conjunction with a non-UK plug which complies with the safety provisions of IEC 884-1, and in respect of which such approval has not been cancelled.
(3A) In determining applications made to it for such approval the notified body shall not grant such approval unless it is satisfied—
(a)that when used in conjunction with such a non-UK plug and when connected to a mains socket in the United Kingdom, conversion plugs of that type provide a level of safety equivalent to a standard plug which satisfies the requirements of regulation 8; and
(b)by means of inspection or testing of samples, that the manufacturer of the conversion plug may reasonably be expected to ensure that normal production and design of the conversion plug will result in conversion plugs of that type corresponding with the samples.”
(6) In regulation 12(4), omit the words "Subject to paragraphs (5), (6) and (7) below,".
(7) In regulation 12(7)(b), omit the words ", (5) or".
(8) In regulation 12(9)—
(a)for "paragraph (1)", substitute “paragraph (3)”;
(b)for "appliance", substitute “conversion plug”.
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