S.L. 424.27 Art. 3Non-applicability of these regulations.

These regulations shall not apply to:

(a) areas used directly for and during the medical treatment of patients;

(b) appliances burning gaseous fuels (any fuel which is in a gaseous state at a temperature of 15ºC under a pressure of 1 bar) used for cooking, heating, hot water production, refrigeration, lighting or washing and having, where applicable, a normal water temperature not exceeding 105ºC;

(c) forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped with such burners;

(d) safety devices, controlling devices or regulating devices and sub-assemblies, other than forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped with such burners separately marketed for trade use and designed to be incorporated into an appliance burning gaseous fuel or assembled to constitute such an appliance;

(e) the manufacture, handling, use, storage and transport of explosives or chemically unstable substances;

(f) the use of means of transport by land, water and air, to which the pertinent provisions of any international agreement (e.g. ADNR, ADR, ICAO, IMO, RID), and the legislative enactments giving effect to those agreements, apply. Means of transport intended for use in a potentially explosive atmosphere shall not be excluded.