The Pressure Equipment Regulations 1999

General duty relating to the placing on the market or putting into service of assemblies U.K.

8.—(1) Subject to regulation 11, no person who is a responsible person shall place on the market or put into service an assembly described in paragraph 2 unless the requirements of paragraph (3) have been complied with in relation to it.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), an assembly is—

(a) an assembly which includes at least one item of pressure equipment described in paragraph (2) of regulation 7 and—

(i) is intended for generating steam or superheated water at a temperature higher than 110°C(1) comprising at least one item of fired or other heated pressure equipment presenting a risk of overheating; or,

(ii) not being a product included in sub-paragraph (i) above, is intended by the manufacturer to be placed on the market and put into service as an assembly; or

(b) an assembly which is intended for generating warm water at temperatures not greater than 110°C, which is manually fed with the solid fuels and has a PS.V greater than 50 bar-L.

(3) (a) The requirements in respect of an assembly described in paragraph (2)(a) are that—

(i) it satisfies the relevant essential requirements and for the purpose of satisfying those requirements where a transposed harmonised standard covers one or more of the relevant essential requirements, any assembly constructed in accordance with that transposed harmonised standard shall be presumed to comply with that or, as the case may be, those essential safety requirements;

(ii) the appropriate conformity assessment procedure in respect of the assembly has been carried out in accordance with regulation 14;

(iii) the CE marking has been affixed to it by the manufacturer of that assembly or his authorised representative established within the Community in accordance with regulation 16 and Schedule 5;

(iv) a declaration of conformity has been drawn up in respect of it by the manufacturer of the assembly or his authorised representative established within the Community containing the information listed in Schedule 6; and

(v) it is in fact safe.

(b) The requirements in respect of any assembly described in paragraph (2)(b) are that—

(i) it satisfies the essential requirements referred to in paragraphs 2.10, 2.11, 3.4, 5(a) and 5(d) of Schedule 2, and

(ii) it complies with the requirements listed in sub-paragraphs (a)(ii) to (v) inclusive above.

(4) Any technical documentation or other information in relation to an assembly required to be retained under the conformity assessment procedure used shall be retained by the person specified in that respect in that conformity assessment procedure for any period specified in that procedure.

(5) In respect of an assembly to be placed on the market in the United Kingdom, where the requirements of paragraphs 3.3 and 3.4 of Schedule 2 are to be met, the marking, labelling, information and instructions shall be in English.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 8 in force at 29.11.1999, see reg. 1(3)

(1)

Corrigendum to Directive 97/23/EC published at OJ No. L265, 27.9.97, p. 110.