{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-systems-and-transportable-gas-containers-regulations-1989/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-systems-and-transportable-gas-containers-regulations-1989/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2169",
  "legislation_title": "The Pressure Systems and Transportable Gas Containers Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-systems-and-transportable-gas-containers-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Examination of containers",
  "text": "(1) The owner of a transportable gas container shall, for the purpose of determining whether it is safe, ensure that the container is examined at appropriate intervals by a competent person.\n(2) Where a competent person undertakes an examination for the purposes of paragraph (1), he shall carry out that examination properly, and if on completing the examination he is satisfied that the container is safe, he shall ensure that there is affixed to the container a mark showing the date of the examination.\n(3) No person other than the competent person or person authorised by him shall affix to a transportable gas container the mark referred to in paragraph (2) or a mark liable to be confused with it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2169/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:34:27.543297+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."
}