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8.—(1) Every employer shall ensure that no person employed by him carries out at work any major repair on the body of a transportable pressure receptacle—
(a)of seamless construction; or
(b)which has contained acetylene.
(2) Every employer shall ensure that no person employed by him carries out at work any major repair on the body of any other type of transportable pressure receptacle unless he is competent to do so.
(3) No person shall supply a transportable pressure receptacle which has undergone a major repair unless following such work a person approved under paragraph 3(4)(a) has marked or certified it as being fit for use or, in the case of an EEC-type cylinder, an inspection body referred to in regulation 13(b)(i) has so marked or certified it.
(4) In this paragraph “major repair” means any repair involving hot work or welding on the body of a transportable pressure receptacle but (except in relation to sub-paragraph (1)(b) above) it does not mean any repair involving heat treatment applied for the purpose of restoring the metallurgical properties of the receptacle.
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