The Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) and Use of Transportable Pressure Receptacles Regulations 1996

Approved Requirements, approval and certification

13.  No person shall import, supply or own a transportable pressure receptacle containing dangerous goods unless either—

(a) he has received evidence, either by a certificate in writing or a stamp on the receptacle, provided—

(i) by an approved person, or

(ii) in accordance with a quality assurance scheme approved and supervised by an approved person,

that the receptacle conforms with the appropriate design and construction requirements of the Approved Requirements; or

(b) the receptacle is an EEC-type cylinder, that is to say—

(i) there is an EEC Verification Certificate in force in respect of it issued by an inspection body which, under the law of any Member State, is authorised to grant such a certificate for the purposes of the Pressure Vessels Framework Directive and the separate Directive relating to that type or cylinder, or, in the case of a cylinder not subject to EEC verification under any of the separate Directives, it conforms to the requirements of the Pressure Vessels Framework Directive and the separate Directive relating to that type of cylinder, and

(ii) it bears all the marks and inscriptions required by the Pressure Vessels Framework Directive and the separate Directive relating to that type of cylinder.