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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-04082025-265198
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 484]
NEW DELHI, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025/SHRAVANA 13, 1947
5185 GI/2025
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
(Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 4th August, 2025
G.S.R. 527(E).- The draft of the following rules to amend the Gas Cylinders Rules, 2016 which the Central
Government proposes to make, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5 and 7 of the Explosives Act, 1984
(4 of 1984), is hereby published as required by sub-section (1) of section 18 of the said Act, for information of all
persons likely to be affected thereby; and notice is hereby given that the said draft shall be taken into consideration after
Thirty (30) days from the date on which the copies of this notification as published in the Official Gazette are made
available to the public;
Objections or suggestions, if any, to these draft rules may be sent to the Director (Explosives), Department for
Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Room No. 252-A, Udyog Bhavan, New
Delhi - 110001 or Email: expl-dipp@nic.in; within the period specified above.
The objections or suggestions which may be received from any person with respect to the said draft rules,
within the period so specified will be considered by the Central Government.
Draft rules
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) These rules may be called the Gas Cylinders (Fourth Amendment)
Rules, 2025.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Gas Cylinders Rules, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as said rules), in sub-rule (xxviii)of rule 2, the
following shall be substituted, namely;
"gas cylinder" or "cylinder" means any closed metal container having a volume exceeding five
hundred mililitre but not exceeding one thousand liters intended for the storage and transport of compressed
gas, including any liquefied petroleum gas container or liquefied natural gas container or compressed natural
gas cylinder or compressed hydrogen gas cylinder fitted to a motor vehicle as its fuel tank but not including
any other such container fitted to a special transport or undercarriage and includes a composite cylinder and
cryogenic container.
However, the water capacity of cylinder used for filling and storage of CHG, CNG, nitrogen,
compressed air may exceed one thousand liters up to three thousand liters provided the diameter of the nitrogen,
compressed air cylinder does not exceed sixty centimeters and the diameter ofCHG, CNG cylinder does not
exceed eighty centimeters.
Provided that Composite cylinders for CHG shall not be wrapped with glass fibre; "
[F. No. P-13033/32/2021-EXPLOSIVE-Part(1)]
Dr. SANDHYA BHULLAR, Jt. Secy.
Note: The principal rules were published in the official Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section
(i) vide notification number 1081(E) dated 22nd November, 2016 and subsequently amended vide notification
number G.S.R. 189(E) dated 27thFebruary, 2018, G.S.R. 231(E) dated 15th March 2018, G.S.R. 44(E) dated
23rd January, 2019, G.S.R. 44(E) dated 20th January 2022, G.S.R. 225(E) dated 11th April, 2025, G.S.R. 386(E),
dated 16th June, 2025and G.S.R. 501(E) dated 28th July 2025.
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