{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-equipment-safety-regulations-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-40",
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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",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/40",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Hydrostatic test pressure",
  "text": "For pressure vessels, the hydrostatic test pressure referred to in paragraph 27 must be no less than whichever is greater of the following—\n(a) that corresponding to the maximum loading to which the pressure equipment may be subject in service taking into account its maximum allowable pressure and its maximum allowable temperature, multiplied by the coefficient 1.25;\n(b) the maximum allowable pressure multiplied by the coefficient 1.43.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1105/schedule/2/paragraph/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:08.933092+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."
}