{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-systems-safety-regulations-2000/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-systems-safety-regulations-2000/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/128",
  "legislation_title": "The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pressure-systems-safety-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Power to grant exemptions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Executive may, by a certificate in writing, exempt any person or class of persons or any type or class of pressure system from the application of any of the requirements or prohibitions imposed by these Regulations, and any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time, and may be revoked by a certificate in writing at any time.\n(2) The Executive shall not grant any such exemption unless, having regard to the circumstances, and in particular to–\n(a) the conditions, if any, which it proposes to attach to the exemption; and\n(b) any other requirement imposed by or under any enactment which apply to the case,\nit is satisfied that the health and safety or persons who are likely to be affected by the exemption will not be prejudiced in consequence of it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 21.2.2000, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/128/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:30.236587+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."
}