The Pressure Vessels (Verification) Regulations 1988
These Regulations implement those provisions of Council Directives 76/767/EEC (OJ No. L262 p.153), 84/525/EEC (OJ No. L300 p.1), 84/526/EEC (OJ No. L300 p.20) and 84/527/EEC (OJ No. L300 p.48) which relate to the verification and inspection of pressure vessels. The Regulations—provide for the appointment by the Health and Safety Executive of inspection bodies to carry out inspection of gas cylinders, and to revoke any such appointment in certain circumstances (regulation 3);enable manufacturers to present gas cylinders to inspection bodies for EEC verification (regulation 4);empower the inspection bodies to carry out such checks, examinations and tests as are required for EEC verification by the Framework Directive and the relevant Separate Directive and affix to the gas cylinders the appropriate EEC verification marks and to issue to the manufacturer an EEC verification certificate in accordance with the model set out in the relevant Separate Directive (regulation 5);allow inspection bodies reasonable access to the places where the gas cylinders are manufactured if such access is essential to assist the proper carrying out of the verification (regulation 6);require an inspection body to send a written notice of its decision refusing to affix the appropriate EEC verification mark or refusing to issue the appropriate EEC verification certificate (regulation 7);enable a manufacturer to apply to the Secretary of State for a review of a decision by an inspection body refusing to affix the appropriate EEC verification mark or to issue the appropriate EEC verification certificate (regulation 8);make it an offence for any person other than an inspection body to affix to a gas cylinder any of the EEC verification marks referred to in regulation 5(2), and for any person to affix to a gas cylinder any mark liable to be confused with any of those EEC verification marks (regulation 9);provide a special procedure specified in Article 22 of the Framework Directive whereby a manufacturer wishing to export a pressure vessel which is subject to that Directive but not subject to the requirements of a Separate Directive, may have the vessel verified as conforming to the design requirements imposed by the law of the Member State to which the vessel is to be exported (regulation 10).