{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-equipment-safety-regulations-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-7",
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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/3/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of the classification referred to in paragraph (5), fluids shall be divided up into the following groups—\n(a) group 1 consisting of substances and mixtures, as defined in points 7 and 8 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16th December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EEC, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, that are classified as hazardous in accordance with the following physical or health hazard classes laid down in Parts 2 and 3 of Annex 1 to that Regulation—\n(i) unstable explosives or explosives of Divisions 1.1. 1.2. 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5;\n(ii) flammable gases, category 1 and 2;\n(iii) oxidising gases, category 1;\n(iv) flammable liquids, categories 1 and 2;\n(v) flammable liquids, category 3 where the maximum allowable temperature is above the flashpoint;\n(vi) flammable solids, category 1 and 2;\n(vii) self-reactive substances and mixtures, type A to F;\n(viii) pyrophoric liquids, category 1;\n(ix) pyrophoric solids, category 1;\n(x) oxidising liquids, category 1, 2 and 3;\n(xi) substances and mixtures which in contact with water emit flammable gases, category 1, 2 and 3;\n(xii) oxidising liquids, category 1, 2 and 3;\n(xiii) oxidising solids, category 1, 2 and 3;\n(xiv) organic peroxides types A to F;\n(xv) acute oral toxicity, category 1 and 2;\n(xvi) acute dermal toxicity, category 1, 2 and 3;\n(xvii) acute inhalation toxicity, category 1, 2 and 3;\n(xviii) specific target organ toxicity – single exposure, category 1;\nGroup 1 also comprises substances and mixtures contained in pressure equipment with a maximum allowable temperature TS which exceeds the flashpoint of the fluid;\n(b) group 2 consisting of substances and mixtures not referred to in point (a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. 2 inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 24 para. 46(c) (with Sch. 24 para. 41) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2 and S.I. 2020/852, reg. 4(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(m)(x)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "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."
}