Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 18,185, 5 ta’ Frar, 2008

L.N. 51 of 2008

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP 427)

Restriction of Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and

Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

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

Product Safety Act, the Minister for Competitiveness and

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

made the following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Restriction of Use of Citation,

commencement and

Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment scope.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2008 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Restriction of Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical

and Electronic Equipment Regulations, 2004, hereinafter referred to as L.N. 396 of 2004.

“the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into

force on the 1 st July 2006.

In Schedule I of the principal regulations the title “Applications

of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated

biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) which are

exempt from the requirements of regulation 4(2)”shall be substituted

by the title “Applications of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent

chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated

diphenyl ethers (PBDE) which are exempt from the requirements of

regulation 4(1).”.

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