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Paragraph 35 I1I2

United Kingdom

(1)

Steel alloys in sheet or plate form, having any of the following characteristics—

(a)

steel alloys capable of ultimate tensile strength of 1 200 MPa or more, at 293 K (20 °C); or

(b)

nitrogen-stabilised duplex stainless steel.

(2)

In this paragraph—

(a)

“nitrogen-stabilised duplex stainless steel” means steel with a two-phase microstructure consisting of grains of ferritic and austenitic steel with the addition of nitrogen to stabilise the microstructure;

(b)

a reference to an alloy “capable of” something encompasses alloys before or after heat treatment.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 2 para. 35 not in force at made date, see reg. 1(2)

I2

Sch. 2 para. 35 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2019/627, reg. 7(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)