Transport of Dangerous Goods (Safety Advisers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

2.  Regulation 4(1) shall not apply to or in relation to the transport in a vehicle by road or by railway of—

(a) excepted packages, and in this sub-paragraph “excepted package” shall have the meaning assigned to it in regulation 1(2) of the Packaging, Labelling and Carriage of Radioactive Material by Rail Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(1);

(b) dangerous goods (other than radioactive material)—

(i) in a receptacle in any package where the mass or volume of dangerous goods in that receptacle does not exceed the number specified in column 2 of Table 2 in Schedule 1 to the CDG Road Regulations opposite the entry in column 1 of that Table for the appropriate transport category of those goods,

(ii) in a receptacle which is a package, where the mass or volume of that package does not exceed the number specified in column 2 of Table 2 in Schedule 1 to the CDG Road Regulations opposite the entry in column 1 of that Table for the appropriate transport category of those goods,

(iii) in packages where the total mass or volume of packaged dangerous goods does not exceed the number specified in column 3 of Table 2 in Schedule 1 to the CDG Road Regulations opposite the entry in column 1 of that Table for the appropriate transport category of those goods,

and in this sub-paragraph “mass or volume” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 2(3) of the CDG Road Regulations, “package” and “receptacle” have the meanings assigned to them in regulation 2(1) of the CDGCPL Regulations, “total mass or volume of packaged dangerous goods” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 2(4) of the CDG Road Regulations, and “transport category” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 2(1), as applied in accordance with regulation 2(5), of the CDG Road Regulations.

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S.R. 1998 No. 132