Electrical Accessories (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 17,646, 31 ta’ Awissu, 2004

L.N. 397 of 2004

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(ACT NO. V OF 2001)

Electrical Accessories (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38 to 40 of the

Product Safety Act, 2001, the Minister for Competitiveness and

Communication, on the advice of the Malta Standards Authority, has

made the following regulations>–

The title of these regulations is the Electrical Accessories Citation.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2004, and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Electrical Accessories Regulations, 2004, hereinafter L.N. 181 of 2004.

referred to as “the principal regulations”.

For sub-regulation (2) of regulation 4 of the principal Amends regulation

4 of the principal

regulations, there shall be substituted the following>

regulations.

“(2) In these regulations where there is a requirement in

any provision of these regulations that an electrical accessory shall

conform to a Maltese Standard, including where conformity is

required for approval by a conformity assessment body, such

requirement shall be satisfied if the electrical accessory conforms

to any standard or specification recognised for use in any member

State of the Community or in another Contracting State of the

European Economic Area (EEA) or in Turkey, provided that

conformity to such a standard or specification provides a level of

safety equivalent to that which would be provided by conformity

to the relevant Maltese Standard, and any reference to such a

requirement shall be construed accordingly.”.

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