Pressure Systems Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 No. 222

SCHEDULE 1

PART I pressure systems excepted from all regulations

4.  That part of a system which is only a pressure system because it is –

(a) subject to a leak test (except that this sub-paragraph shall not apply to a pipeline);

(b) pressurised unintentionally, such pressurisation being not reasonably foreseeable; or

(c) a pipeline pressurised by a relevant fluid solely as part of a test or line clearance operation, but this exception shall not apply if the pipeline –

(i) is used for the conveyance of a relevant fluid, or

(ii) is pressurised beyond its safe operating limits.