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Explanatory note

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These Regulations implement those provisions of Council Directives 76/767/EEC (OJ No. L262 p.153), 84/525/EEC (OJ No. L300 p.1), 84/526/EEC (OJ No. L300 p.20) and 84/527/EEC (OJ No. L300 p.48) which relate to the pattern approval of gas cylinders. The Regulations:

(a)

enable manufacturers to make applications for pattern approval to the Health and Safety Executive (Regulation 3);

(b)

provide for the Executive to grant pattern approval and issue a certificate of such approval if satisfied that a type of gas cylinder conforms with the appropriate requirements of the Directives (Regulation 4);

(c)

empower the Executive to withdraw approval if it should not have been granted or if gas cylinders of the type for which an approval was granted fail to conform with it (Regulation 6);

(d)

enable manufacturers to apply to the Secretary of State for a review of a decision by the Executive to refuse or withdraw pattern approval (Regulation 8);

(e)

make it an offence for a manufacturer to affix a pattern approval mark described in the Directives to a gas cylinder if it is not of a type for which the appropriate pattern approval is in force (Regulation 9).