The Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 2000

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The Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Made

9 th March 2000

Laid before Parliament

13 th March 2000

Coming into force

8 th April 2000

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to the approval of radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART IINTRODUCTORY

Citation, commencement, revocations and disapplications

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 8 th April 2000.

(2) The following Orders and Regulations are hereby revoked:

Telecommunication Apparatus (Advertisements) Order 1982(3)

Telecommunication Apparatus (Advertisements) Order 1985(4)

Telecommunication Apparatus (Advertisements) (Amendments) Order 1985(5)

Telecommunication Apparatus (Marking and Labelling) Order 1982(6)

Telecommunication Apparatus (Marking and Labelling) Order 1985(7)

Telecommunication Apparatus (Marking and Labelling) (Amendment) Order 1985(8)

Telecommunication Apparatus (Bell Noise Labelling) Order 1985(9)

Telecommunication Apparatus (Approval Fees) (British Approvals Board for Telecommunications) Order 1990(10)

Telecommunication Apparatus (Approval Fees) (British Approvals Board for Telecommunications) Order 1992(11)

Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Regulations 1992(12)

Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment and Extension) Regulations 1994(13)

Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 1995(14)

(3) Sections 22 and 84 of the Act, the Electromagnetic Compatibility Regulations 1992 , except for regulations 5 and 31(15) , and the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994 , except for regulations 5 and 7(16) , shall cease to apply to apparatus covered by these Regulations.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations (except in Schedule 9)—

“the Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1984(17);

“active implantable medical device” shall have the meaning in Article 1 of Council Directive 90/385/EEC of 20 June 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to active implantable medical devices(18);

“apparatus” means any equipment that is either radio equipment or telecommunications terminal equipment or both;

“the CE marking” has the meaning given in regulation 10;

“the Commission” means the Commission of the European Communities;

“a component or a separate technical unit of a vehicle” shall have the meaning in Article 2 of Council Directive 92/61/EEC(19);

“the Directive” means Directive 1999/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity(20);

“the Director” means the Director General of Telecommunications appointed under section 1 of the Act;

“enforcement authority” has the meaning given in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 9;

“equipment class” means a class identifying particular types of apparatus which under the Directive are considered similar and those interfaces for which the apparatus is designed. Apparatus may belong to more than one equipment class;

“harmful interference” means interference which endangers the functioning of a radio navigation service or of other safety services or which otherwise seriously degrades, obstructs or repeatedly interrupts a radio communications service operating in accordance with the applicable Community or national regulations;

“harmonised standard” means a technical specification adopted by a recognised standards body under a mandate from the Commission in conformity with the procedures laid down in Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(21) for the purpose of establishing a European requirement, compliance with which is not compulsory;

“interface” means either or both of—

a network termination point which is a physical connection point at whic...

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