{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/simple-pressure-vessels-safety-regulations-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The approved body must examine the technical documentation and supporting evidence in respect of a vessel and, if provided, the prototype representative of the production of the vessel, to assess the adequacy of the technical design of the vessel.\n(2) Where a prototype vessel is examined, the approved body must—\n(a) verify that a prototype vessel—\n(i) has been manufactured in conformity with the technical documentation;\n(ii) may safely be used under its intended working conditions;\n(iii) identify the elements which have been designed in accordance with the applicable provisions of the relevant harmonised standards, as well as the elements which have been designed in accordance with other relevant technical specifications;\n(b) carry out, or arrange the carrying out, of appropriate examinations and tests to check whether, where the manufacturer has chosen to apply the solutions in the relevant harmonised standards, these have been applied correctly;\n(c) carry out, or arrange the carrying out, of appropriate examinations and tests to check whether, where the solutions in the relevant harmonised standards have not been applied, the solutions adopted by the manufacturer applying other relevant technical specifications meet the corresponding essential safety requirements of these Regulations; and\n(d) agree with the manufacturer on a location where the examinations and tests will be carried out.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 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. 40(c) (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 onlyText here"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1092/schedule/2/paragraph/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."
}