{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/simple-pressure-vessels-safety-regulations-2016/regulation-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/simple-pressure-vessels-safety-regulations-2016/regulation-61.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/61",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Enforcement action in respect of vessels which are in conformity, but which present a risk",
  "text": "(1) Where, having carried out an evaluation under regulation 58 (evaluation of vessels presenting a risk), an enforcing authority finds that although a vessel is in conformity with Part 2, it presents a risk to the health or safety of persons, to domestic animals or to property, the enforcing authority must require a relevant economic operator to take all appropriate measures to—\n(a) ensure that the vessel concerned, when placed on the market, no longer presents such a risk;\n(b) withdraw the vessel within a prescribed period; or\n(c) recall the vessel within a prescribed period.\n(2) Where an enforcing authority is not the Secretary of State and it takes measures under paragraph (1), it must notify the Secretary of State immediately.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The notice referred to in paragraph (2) must include all available details and, in particular—\n(a) the data necessary for the identification of the vessel;\n(b) the origin and the supply chain of the vessel;\n(c) the nature of the risk involved; and\n(d) the nature and duration of the measures taken by the enforcing authority.\n(5) In this regulation, “prescribed period” means a period which—\n(a) is prescribed by the enforcing authority; and\n(b) is reasonable and commensurate with the nature of the risk presented by the vessel.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 61(3) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 21 para. 34(a) (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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61(4) 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. 34(b) (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/61",
    "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."
}