S.L. 454.1 Art. 8Validity.

(1) The EEC pattern approval shall be valid for ten years. It may be extended for successive periods of ten years and the number of instruments which may be manufactured in accordance with the approved pattern shall not be limited.

(2) EEC pattern approval is granted on the basis of the provisions of these regulations and of separate regulations relating to it and shall not be extended after the date of the entry into force of any amendment to, or adaptation of, these provisions, in cases where such EEC pattern approval could not have been granted on the basis of these new provisions.

(3) When the EEC pattern approval is not extended, this approval shall nevertheless continue to apply to instruments which would have already been approved and are already in service.

(4) If its control equipment so permits, where use is made of new techniques not provided for in separate regulations, the Authority may grant EEC pattern approval with limited effect after consultation with other type approval bodies.

(5) It may include the following restrictions:

(a) limit on the number of instruments which may be covered by the approval,

(b) obligation to notify the competent authorities of the place of installation,

(c) restrictions on use,

(d) special restrictions concerning the technique used.

(6) However, the Authority shall refuse to grant the limited EEC pattern approval unless:

(a) the separate regulations for that category of instruments has come into force,

(b) no derogation has been made from the maximum permissible errors laid down in the separate regulations. The period of validity of such approval shall not exceed two years. It may be extended by up to three years at most.

(7) In the event thai the Authority has granted the limited EEC pattern approval referred to in subregulation (4), it shall take all necessary steps to ensure that adjustment to technical progress is made to the Annexes, and, where appropriate, to the separate regulations as soon as it considers that a new technique has proved to be satisfactory.