The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

3.  In regulation 5 (application to tanks, pressure receptacles, battery-vehicles, battery-wagons, MEGCs, UN-certified MEGCs and transportable pressure equipment)—

(a)for the heading there shall be substituted—

Application to tanks, pressure receptacles, battery-vehicles, battery-wagons, MEGCs, UN MEGCs and transportable pressure equipment;

(b)in paragraph (2) for the words “UN-certified MEGCs” there shall be substituted “UN MEGCs”;

(c)for paragraph (9) there shall be substituted—

(9) Subject to the following paragraphs, Part IV shall apply to any equipment used at work and manufactured—

(a)on or after 1st October 2003 in the case of transportable pressure equipment which is a cylinder, tube or cryogenic receptacle and is not an old pressure receptacle to which Schedule 2 applies;

(b)on or after 1st August 2006 in the case of equipment which is a pressure drum, bundle of cylinders, battery-vehicle, battery-wagon, MEGC, UN MEGC or a tank;

(c)on or before 30th September 2005 in the case of equipment which is—

(i)a cylinder, tube or cryogenic receptacle which is subject to a reassessment of conformity; or

(ii)an EEC-type cylinder; and

(d)on or before 30th June 2007 in the case of equipment which is a pressure drum, bundle of cylinders, battery-vehicle, battery-wagon, MEGC, UN MEGC or a tank which is subject to a reassessment of conformity.;

(d)in paragraph (10) for the words “UN-certified MEGCs” there shall be substituted “UN MEGCs”; and

(e)paragraph (15) shall be omitted.