{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-systems-and-transportable-gas-containers-regulations-1989/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-systems-and-transportable-gas-containers-regulations-1989/regulation-20.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/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Repair Work",
  "text": "(1) An employer shall ensure that no person employed by him carries out at work any major repair on the body of a transportable gas container–\n(a) of seamless construction; or\n(b) which has contained acetylene.\n(2) An employer shall ensure that no person employed by him carries out at work any major repair on the body of any other type of transportable gas container unless he is competent to do so.\n(3) No person shall supply a transportable gas container which has undergone a major repair unless following such work a person or body of persons approved by the Executive for the purposes of regulation 16(2)(a)(i) has marked or certified it as being fit for use, or, in the case of an EEC-type cylinder, an inspection body referred to in regulation 16(2)(b)(i) has so marked or certified it.\n(4) In this regulation “major repair” means any repair involving hot work or welding on the body of a transportable gas container but (except in relation to paragraph (1)(b)) it does not mean heat treatment applied for the purpose of restoring the metallurgical properties of the container.",
  "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/20",
    "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."
}