European Communities (Electrical Equipment For Use In Potentially Explosive Atmospheres) (Amendment) Regulations, 1986

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 244/1986

S.I. No. 244 of 1986.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT FOR USE IN POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1986.

I, RUAIRI QUINN T.D., Minister for Labour, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972.), and for the purpose of giving effect to Council Directive No. 76/117/EEC of 18 December, 1975.1 Council Directive No. 79/196/EEC of 6 February, 19792 and Commission Directive No. 84/47/EEC of 16 January, 1984,3 hereby make the following Regulations:

1OJ No. L24/45 30.1.1976.

2OJ No. L43/20 20.2.1979.

3OJ No. L31/19 2.2.1984. 1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Electrical Equipment for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres) (Amendment) Regulations, 1986.

(2) The Principal Regulations and these Regulations may be cited together as the European Communities (Electrical Equipment for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres) Regulations.1981 and 1986. 2. In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the European Communities (Electrical Equipment for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres) Regulations. 1981 ( S.I. No. 61 of 1981 ). 3. Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations shall be construed as if the reference therein to the Distinctive Community Mark were a reference to the mark in Annex II of Commission Directive No. 84/47/EEC of 16 January, 19843, and specified in the Schedule to these Regulations and having the form and proportions shown in that Schedule.

3OJ No. L31/19 2.2.1984. 4. The following Regulation is hereby substituted for Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations:

"5. Where electrical equipment to which these Regulations apply is marked with the Distinctive Community mark and—

( a ) it conforms with the harmonised standards specified in Annex 1 to the Directive of 1984 which, having regard to the type of protection employed in the equipment, are appropriate, or

( b ) if it differs from the said standards—

(i) it offers the degree of safety specified in Article 4 (1) of the Directive of 1979, and

(ii) the degree of safety so offered is attested in the manner described in the said Article 4 (1),

it shall, by reason of being so marked and complying with the requirements of paragraph (a) or (b), as the case may be, of this Regulation, be regarded as complying with the requirements of—

(A) Regulations 7 (2) and 7 (4) of the Factories (Electricity) Regulations, 1972 ( S.I....