{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/schedule-5A/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986/schedule-5A/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1078",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-construction-and-use-regulations-1986",
  "path": "schedule/5A/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Discharge from thermally-activated pressure relief devices",
  "text": "(1) Compressed hydrogen gas discharge from a thermally-activated pressure relief device of a compressed hydrogen storage system must not be directed—\n(a) into enclosed or semi-enclosed spaces;\n(b) into or towards any vehicle wheel housing;\n(c) towards each container;\n(d) forward from the hydrogen-fuelled vehicle, or horizontally (parallel to the road) from the back or sides of the hydrogen-fuelled vehicle.\n(2) If a thermally-activated pressure relief device of a compressed hydrogen storage system has a vent line, the outlet of this vent line must be protected by a cap.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5A inserted (29.4.2025) by The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/454), regs. 1(1), 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/schedule/5A/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:46:09.046037+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."
}