ADR tank special provision TT5

Hydraulic pressure tests every 3 years at most for fixed and demountable tanks, every 2½ years for tank-containers.

The hydraulic pressure test is due no later than every 3 years in the left-hand column and every 2½ years in the right-hand column. Under the column convention of 6.8.1.1, 3 years binds battery-vehicles, demountable tanks and tank-vehicles, and 2½ years binds MEGCs, tank swap bodies and tank-containers.

Limits
ValueApplies when
3 yearsleft column: battery-vehicles, demountable tanks, tank-vehicles
2½ yearstank-containers, tank swap bodies and MEGCs (right column)

Note. Under 6.8.1.1, text set in one column binds only the left-hand group (battery-vehicles, demountable tanks, tank-vehicles) or only the right-hand group (MEGCs, tank swap bodies, tank-containers). Symbols checked against a UTF-8 text extraction of the page.

Refers to: 6.8.1.1.

Carried by 1 Table A entry

UN 1829

Source: ADR 2025 (ECE/TRANS/352), Volume II, section 6.8.4 (d), TT5, page 538.

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