The Simple Pressure Vessels (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Other amendments to the principal Regulations U.K.

6.  The principal Regulations shall also be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 2—

(i) the definition of “property” shall be omitted from paragraph (3); and

(ii) for paragraph (5), there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(5) A reference in these Regulations to a relevant national standard is a reference to a national standard of a member State, being a standard which transposes a harmonized standard the reference number of which has been published in the Official Journal of the [F1 European Union] pursuant to Article 5.1 of the Directive.”;

(b) for regulation 3(1), there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, and regulation 6 below, these Regulations shall apply, and shall apply only, to vessels manufactured in series.”;

(c) in regulation 4(4), after “persons” there shall be inserted “or domestic animals”;

(d) at the end of regulation 4(5), for the words from “The instructions must be” to “first taken into service.” there shall be substituted the following—

• “The language of the instructions shall be (without prejudice to the instructions being also in any other language) as follows—

  (i)

  where the manufacturer believes (with reasonable cause) that the vessel is to be taken into service in a particular member State, in the official language or languages of that member State;

  (ii)

  where (i) does not apply but the manufacturer believes (with reasonable cause) that the vessel is destined for a particular member State, in the official language or languages of that member State;

  (iii)

  in any other case, in any official Community language.”;

(e) in regulation 6—

(i) for paragraph (2), there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(2) These Regulations also do not apply in the case of a vessel or a relevant assembly if the supplier believes (with reasonable cause) that it will be taken into service in a country outside the [F1 European Union].”; and

(ii) after paragraph (4), there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(5) These Regulations do not apply to any vessel or relevant assembly which has previously been taken into service in the [F1 European Union].”;

(f) in regulation 24(1), for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b) taken into service,”; and

(g) in Schedule 5—

(i) in the opening words of paragraph 1(b), after “21” there shall be inserted “22”;

(ii) paragraph 1(b)(v), (vii) and (viii)(aa)(C) shall be omitted;

(iii) for paragraph 1(b)(viii)(bb) there shall be substituted—

“(bb) subsection (1A) were omitted;

(cc) in subsection (2), the reference to paragraph (d) of subsection (1) were omitted;

(dd) subsection (2A) were omitted;”;

(iv) paragraph 1(b)(viii)(cc) and (dd) shall be respectively relettered (ee) and (ff);

(v) in the opening words of paragraph 2(b), after “23” there shall be inserted “24”;

(vi) paragraph 2(b)(v), (vii) and (viii) (aa)(C) shall be omitted;

(vii) for paragraph 2(b)(viii)(bb) there shall be substituted—

“(bb) paragraph (1A) were omitted;

(cc) in paragraph (2), the reference to sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) were omitted;

(dd) paragraph (2A) were omitted;”; and

(viii) paragraph 2(b)(viii)(cc), (dd) and (ee) shall be respectively relettered (ee), (ff) and (gg).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Regulations substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 3-6, 8-10

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 6 in force at 1.1.1995, see reg. 1