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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-dangerous-goods-by-road-regulations-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2095",
  "legislation_title": "The Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-dangerous-goods-by-road-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulations 6(a) and (c) and 11 and Schedule 3 shall not apply to or in relation to the carriage of a storage tank which is nominally empty, provided—\n(a) in the case where the tank is subject to the Pressure Systems and Transportable Gas Containers Regulations 1989 it has been examined by a competent person and there is in existence a valid report of that examination in accordance with those Regulations;\n(b) as much of the pipe-work which was connected to the tank as it was reasonably practicable to remove from it has been so removed;\n(c) a suitable pressure relief valve, which shall remain operational during the carriage, is fitted to the tank; and\n(d) subject to sub-paragraph (c) above, all openings in the tank and in any pipe-work attached thereto have been sealed to prevent the escape of any dangerous goods, insofar as it is reasonably practicable to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2169."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/303",
      "affecting_title": "The Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/303",
      "affecting_title": "The Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/303",
      "affecting_title": "The Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/257",
      "affecting_title": "The Transport of Dangerous Goods (Safety Advisers) Regulations 1999"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2095/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:07.755162+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}