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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-equipment-safety-regulations-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1105",
  "legislation_title": "The Pressure Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-equipment-safety-regulations-2016",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "General",
  "text": "(1) Pressure equipment must be properly designed taking all relevant factors into account in order to ensure that the equipment will be safe throughout its intended life.\n(2) The design of pressure equipment must incorporate appropriate safety coefficients using comprehensive methods which are known to incorporate adequate safety margins against all relevant failure modes in a consistent manner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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      "affecting": "uksi/2026/40",
      "affecting_title": "The Treatment of Conformity Assessment Bodies (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the Government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of India) Regulations 2026"
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  "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."
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