The Road Traffic (Training of Drivers of Vehicles Carrying Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1992

PART I CASES WHERE THE CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES IN ROAD TANKERS OR TANK CONTAINERS CARRIED ON VEHICLES IS NOT CARRIAGE TO WHICH THESE REGULATIONS APPLY BY VIRTUE OF REGULATION 2(1)(a)

These Regulations shall not apply to any such carriage as is specified in regulation 2(1)(a) where—

(a) (in the case of carriage in a tank container carried on a vehicle) the substance being carried, other than any liquid nitrogen in the jacket of the tank container which is being carried exclusively for the purpose of insulating any liquid helium or liquid hydrogen which is also being carried in that tank container, is being used solely in connection with the operation of the tank container concerned;

(b) where the vehicle carrying the dangerous substance is a road construction vehicle engaged in the repair or construction of a road; and in this sub-paragraph—

(i) the reference to a road construction vehicle does not include a reference to such a vehicle which is also a road tanker being used for the carriage of liquid tar (including road asphalt and oils, bitumen and cutbacks) which has the substance identification number 1999 or 7033),

(ii) “built-in road construction machinery” means road construction machinery built-in as part of a road construction vehicle or permanently attached to it,

(iii) “road construction machinery” means a machine or contrivance suitable for use in the repair and construction of roads, and

(iv) “road construction vehicle” means a vehicle constructed or adapted for the carriage of built-in road construction machinery and not constructed or adapted for the carriage of any other load except articles and material used for the purposes of that machinery;

(c) where any petroleum-fuel is being carried in a volumetric prover and that volumetric prover—

(i) is not moved, driven or kept on a road other than when it is nominally empty,

(ii) before having been taken onto the road was last filled with kerosene or some other liquid with a flash point not lower than 32°C or was purged with nitrogen, and

(iii) during its carriage has every valve (except those valves which need to be kept open to allow for liquid expansion on volumetric provers used for the measurement of liquefied petroleum gas) and opening closed;

and in this sub-paragraph “nominally empty” has the same meaning as in regulation 17(2) of the Road Traffic (Carriage of Dangerous Substances in Road Tankers and Tank Containers) Regulations 1992, and “petroleum-fuel” and “volumetric prover” have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations or

(d) where the dangerous substance being carried is a pesticide (other than dilute sulphuric acid or a wood preservative) and is diluted ready for use or is otherwise in a condition ready for use, and in relation to which there has been given an approval under regulation 5, and a consent under regulation 6, of the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986(1); and in this sub-paragraph “pesticide” has the same meaning as in section 16(15) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(2) and “wood preservative” means a pesticide used for preserving wood; or

(e) where the dangerous substance being carried is radioactive material.

(1)

S.I. 1986/1510.

(2)

1985 c. 48.