Article 1 This Regulation was formulated in accordance with "Regulations on Safety Supervision of Special Equipment" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") for the purpose of ensuring the safety performance of the bursting disc devices of special equipments and strengthening the safety supervision work of bursting disc devices.
Article 2 This Regulation is applicable to the bursting disc devices used for those special equipments specified in the "Regulations".
The bursting disc device is composed of such spare parts as bursting disc and bursting disc holder. The terms related to bursting disc devices involved in this Regulation are detailed in Appendix A.
Article 3 This Regulation specifies the basic safety requirements for the process of material, design, inspection, installation, application and others as well as for the manufacture licensing, type test, supervision and inspection work of bursting disc devices. The relevant provisions of the corresponding technical standards and management systems shall not be less than requirements of this Regulation.
The safety technical requirements for bursting disc devices are detailed in Appendix B.
Article 4 The manufacturing organization of bursting disc devices shall obtain the corresponding manufacture license of special equipments. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as "AQSIQ") shall be responsible for the acceptance, examination and approval of the manufacture license of domestic and overseas bursting disc devices.
The "Special Equipment Manufacture License" is valid for four years. The bursting disc device manufacturing organization holding the manufacture license shall adopt appropriate mode to mark the "TS" license sign and the serial number of "Special Equipment Manufacture License" on the product.
The manufacture licensing procedure of bursting disc devices shall include application, acceptance, trial production, type test, appraisal and evaluation, examination and approval, and license issuing, etc. The specific licensing procedure shall be carried out in accordance with relevant provisions.
The manufacture license conditions of bursting disc devices are detailed in Appendix C.
Article 5 In case of any one of the following conditions, the bursting disc device shall be carried out with the type test, therein, for Item (I), (II) and (III), the trial production shall be carried out prior to the type test:
(I) Applying for the Manufacture License;
(II) Prior to putting new product into production;
(III) Significant changes are made in such aspects as structure and technology of the product and influence the safety performance;
(IV) The Manufacture License is replaced;
(V) The manufacturing organization restarts the production after stopping production for over 6 months;
(VI) Problems exist in the safety performance of product.
The items and requirements of the type test of bursting disc devices are detailed in Appendix D.
Article 6 After the license application is accepted, the bursting disc device manufacturing organization shall carry out trial production in accordance with the specification and quantity required by the appraisal and evaluation and the type test, and the trial product shall select those representative ones from the bursting disc device types applying for license.
The bursting disc device manufacturing organization shall invite the bursting disc device type test organization published by the AQSIQ to do the type test on product.
The type test procedure of bursting disc devices shall include invitation and acceptance, examination of product technical information, sampling, inspection and test, and issuance of type test report and type test certificate.
Article 7 The type test of bursting disc devices shall be carried out in accordance with the product type. The types of bursting disc devices put into the batch production by the bursting disc device manufacturing organization must be the ones passing the type test.
Article 8 The bursting disc device manufacturing organization shall carry out the manufacture of products in accordance with the approved license scope and also shall accept the supervision and inspection of special equipment inspection agencies on the manufacturing process of bursting disc devices.
The manufacture supervision and inspection requirements for bursting disc devices are detailed in Appendix E.
Article 9 AQSIQ is responsible for the explanation of this Regulation.
Article 10 This Regulation shall be implemented from November 01, 2011.