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OIL STORAGE
F7.1* An oil storage tank with a capacity more than 90 litres, including any pipework connecting the tank to a combustion appliance providing space or water heating, or cooking facilities must be suitably constructed and installed.
F7.2* An oil storage tank with a capacity more than 90 litres must be -
a. adequately separated from any building or part of a building in the same occupation; and
b. adequately separated from any boundary; and
c. provided, where necessary, with an adequate catchpit to retain its contents in the event of leakage.
F7.3* A fire valve must be suitably installed in any pipework connecting an oil storage tank to the combustion appliance that it serves.
LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS STORAGE MORE THAN 9000 LITRES CAPACITY
F7.4* A liquefied petroleum gas storage tank with a capacity more than 9000 litres (or tanks of a total capacity more than 27 500 litres) (water equivalent) and any associated pipework connecting the system to a combustion appliance providing space or water heating, or cooking facilities, must be suitably constructed and installed as to minimise the risk of fire spreading to the tank and the contents of the tank forming explosive gas pockets in the vicinity of any liquefied petroleum gas storage container.
LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS STORAGE NOT MORE THAN 9000 LITRES CAPACITY
F7.5* A liquefied petroleum gas storage container, or containers, with a capacity more than 150 litres but not more than 27 500 litres (water equivalent) and any associated pipework connecting the system to a combustion appliance providing space or water heating, or cooking facilities, must be -
a. suitably constructed and installed; and
b. where the container is a tank, adequately separated from -
i. a building, boundary, or fixed source of ignition, and
ii. any other such tank; and
c. where a group of tanks are sited together, limited in the number of such tanks.
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