The Transportable Pressure Vessels Regulations 2001

Amendments and saving

14.—(1) In the Order of Secretary of State (No. 9), dated June 23, 1919, relating to compressed acetylene contained in a porous substance(1), for the purpose of deeming acetylene not to be an explosive, conditions (1) to (4) and (11) shall be deemed to have been satisfied in respect of any cylinder which complies with the provisions of these Regulations.

(2) Order in Council No. 30(2) shall not apply to the importation or use at work of acetylene in a transportable pressure vessel which complies with the provisions of these Regulations.

(3) In the Compressed Acetylene (Importation) Regulations 1978(3), after regulation 1 there shall be inserted the following regulation—

“1A.

These Regulations shall not apply to any transportable pressure vessel which complies with the provisions of the Transportable Pressure Vessels Regulations 2001.”.

(4) In the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail Regulations 1996(4)—

(a) in regulation 2(5) and (7), for the words “1st July 2001” there shall be substituted “1st July 2003”;

(b) in regulation 9(1), for the words “30th June 2001” there shall be substituted “30th June 2003”; and

(c) in the title to Schedule 1, for the words “1ST JULY 2001” there shall be substituted “1ST JULY 2003”.

(5) The CDGCPL Regulations shall be amended in accordance with Schedule 8.

(6) In the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road Regulations 1996(5)—

(a) in regulation 11(1)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), for the words “1st July 2001” there shall be substituted “1st July 2003”, and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), for the words “30th June 2001” there shall be substituted “30th June 2003”;

(b) in the title to Schedule 3, for the words “1ST JULY 2001” there shall be substituted “1ST JULY 2003”; and

(c) in paragraph 11 of Schedule 10, for the words “1st July 2001” there shall be substituted “1st July 2003”.

(7) In the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000(6)—

(a) in regulation 2(1)—

(i) in the definition of “pressure system”, after the words “but does not include a transportable pressure receptacle” there shall be added the words “or a transportable pressure vessel”; and

(ii) after the definition of “transportable pressure receptacle” there shall be inserted the following definition—

• ““transportable pressure vessel” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Transportable Pressure Vessels Regulations 2001;”; and

(b) in regulation 9(3), there shall be deleted the words “and regulation 14(4)”.

(8) Any certificate or record which was required to be kept under paragraph 10 of Schedule 8 to the CDGCPL Regulations shall continue to be kept as if these Regulations had not been made.

(1)

S.R. & O. 1919/809, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

S.R. & O. 1937/54, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(3)

S.I. 1978/1723, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(4)

S.I. 1996/2089, relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1998/2885.

(5)

S.I. 1996/2095, relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1998/2885.

(6)

S.I. 2000/128.