The Carriage of Explosives by Road Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Regulation 14

SCHEDULE 4 Mixed Loads

Compatibility Groups

1.  Where explosive articles in Compatibility Group N are carried together with explosives in Compatibility Groups C, D or E, they shall, for the purpose of applying this Schedule, be deemed to be in Compatibility Group D.

2.  Where explosives in different Compatibility Groups are carried together, then, subject to paragraph (1), they shall all, for the purpose of applying the Table in Part III of Schedule 3 and Schedule 5, be deemed to be in the Group amongst them which comes highest in the following list, that is Group B (highest), F, G, C, D, E and J (lowest).

Divisions

3.  Where explosives in different Divisions are carried together, then, subject to paragraphs 4 and 5 of this Schedule and paragraph 6 of Schedule 3, for the purpose of applying Schedules 3 and 5, all the explosives shall be deemed to be in the Division amongst them which comes highest in the following list, that is Division 1.1 (highest), 1.5, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6 and 1.4 (lowest).

4.  Where explosives in Compatibility Group D and Division 1.5 are carried with explosives in Division 1.2, then, for the purpose of applying Schedules 3 and 5, they shall all be deemed to be in Division 1.1.

5.  Where explosive articles in Compatibility Group N and Division 1.6 are carried with a different type of explosive article in the same Division and Compatibility Group, then, unless it can be shown that effective measures have been taken to ensure that there is no additional risk of sympathetic detonation between the articles, they shall all, for the purpose of applying Schedules 3 and 5, be deemed to be in Division 1.1.

Permitted mixed loads

6.  For the purposes of regulation 14(1)(a), the following explosives may be carried together—

(a) detonating fuses in Compatibility Group B may be carried with explosive articles in Compatibility Group D, E or F of which the fuses are components;

(b) explosives in Compatibility Group C, D, E, N or S may be carried together or in any combination of them;

(c) explosives in Compatibility Group F may be carried with explosive articles in Compatibility Group C or D or explosives in Compatibility Group E or S;

(d) explosive articles in Compatibility Group G may be carried with explosive articles in Compatibility Group C or D or explosives in Compatibility Group E;

(e) explosives in Compatibility Group S may be carried with explosives in Compatibility Group B, G, H or J,

and, where a particular type of explosive is mentioned in more than one sub-paragraph above as being permitted to be carried with other types of explosives, it may be carried with all or any of those other types of explosives.

7.  For the purpose of regulation 14(3) the following explosives and other dangerous goods may be carried together—

(a) explosives allocated on classification the UN Number 0276, 0323, 0431 or 0432 may be carried with the dangerous goods allocated on classification the UN Number 3268 or with automotive airbag inflator units allocated on classification to UN Class 2, or in any combination of them, provided the total mass or volume of dangerous goods when added together does not exceed 500;

(b) explosives allocated on classification the UN Number 0092, 0093 or 0191 may be carried with the dangerous goods allocated on classification the UN Number 3072 and 2990 and/or in any combination of them, provided the total mass or volume of dangerous goods allocated on classification the UN Number 3072 or 2990 does not exceed 500;

(c) explosives allocated on classification the UN Number 0030, 0042, 0065, 0081, 0082, 0241, 0255, 0360 or 0361 may be carried with the dangerous goods allocated on classification the UN Number 1942;

(d) explosives allocated on classification the UN Number 0191, 0197, 0336, 0403, 0431, 0432 or 0453 may be carried with dangerous goods in transport category 3, provided the total net mass of such explosives does not exceed 500 kilograms;

(e) explosive articles in Compatibility Group S and Division 1.4 may be carried with dangerous goods in transport categories 2, 3 or 4, provided the total mass or volume of dangerous goods in transport categories 2 and 3 do not exceed 200 and 500 respectively;

(f) explosives in Compatibility Group G and Division 1.4 may be carried with flammable liquids and flammable gases in transport category 2 or non-flammable, non-toxic gases in transport category 3, or in any combination of them, provided the total mass or volume of dangerous goods does not exceed 200 and the total net mass of explosives does not exceed 20 kilograms,

and in this paragraph “total mass or volume of dangerous goods” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 2(3), (4) and (5) of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(1) as if—

(g) those Regulations applied to explosives; and

(h) in relation to their application to explosives—

(i) the references in paragraphs (3)(a) and (4)(b)(ii) of those Regulations to “gross mass of any article” and “gross mass” respectively were references to “net mass of any explosive substance or article” and “net mass”, and

(ii) sub-paragraphs (b) to (f) of paragraph (3) and heads (iii) to (vi) of paragraph 4(b) of those Regulations did not apply.

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S.R. 1997 No. 248