{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-cylinders-pattern-approval-regulations-1987/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-cylinders-pattern-approval-regulations-1987/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/116",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Cylinders (Pattern Approval) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-cylinders-pattern-approval-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Review",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no manufacturer shall affix to a gas cylinder—\n(a) a pattern approval mark described in the Framework Directive or any mark liable to be confused with such a mark unless the cylinder is of a type for which EEC pattern approval is in force;\n(b) a pattern approval mark described in one of the Separate Directives or any mark liable to be confused with such a mark unless the cylinder is of a type for which EEC pattern approval, granted for the purposes of that Directive, is in force.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a sample cylinder to be submitted to the Executive in connection with an application for pattern approval.\n(3) Paragraph (1) shall have effect as if it were a health and safety regulation made under section 15 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the provisions of that Act as regards enforcement and offences shall apply to that paragraph.\n(4) It shall be a defence to a charge of committing an offence under sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (1) for the manufacturer to show that he neither knew nor had reasonable grounds to believe that the cylinder was not of a type, in relation to an offence charged under sub-paragraph (a), for which EEC pattern approval was in force or, in relation to an offence charged under sub-paragraph (b), for which EEC pattern approval, granted for the purposes of the Separate Directive in question, was in force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 37; section 15 was amended by the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Schedule 15, p.6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/116/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:33:31.571565+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."
}