The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 696

Regulation 10

SCHEDULE 7 Amendment of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998

General

1.—(1) The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a) for “EC declaration of conformity” substitute “declaration of conformity”(1);

(b) for paragraph (b) of that definition, substitute—

“(b) the requirements for a declaration of conformity in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on personal protective equipment and repealing Council Directive 89/686/EEC; or”;

(3) In regulation 9(1)(b)(thorough examination and inspection), for “an EC declaration of conformity” substitute “a declaration of conformity”.

(4) In regulation 11(1) (keeping of information), for “an EC declaration of conformity” substitute “a declaration of conformity”.

(1)

The definition of “EC declaration of conformity” has been amended by regulation 26 of and paragraph 2(b) to Schedule 7 to S.I. 2008/1597.