{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/simple-pressure-vessels-safety-regulations-2016/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/simple-pressure-vessels-safety-regulations-2016/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1092",
  "legislation_title": "The Simple Pressure Vessels (Safety) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/simple-pressure-vessels-safety-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Design and manufacture in accordance with essential safety requirements and sound engineering practice",
  "text": "(1) Before placing a category A vessel on the market, a manufacturer must ensure that the vessel has been designed and manufactured in accordance with the essential safety requirements.\n(2) Before placing a category B vessel on the market, a manufacturer must ensure that the vessel has been designed and manufactured in accordance with sound engineering practice.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (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. 21 para. 4 (with Sch. 21 para. 37) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1092/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:14.885631+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."
}