Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Amendment of the Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984

2.—(1) The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In regulation 3, after the word “months” there shall be inserted the words “or, in the case of a hazardous substance consisting of ammonium nitrate or a mixture containing ammonium nitrate, at least 4 weeks”.

(3) In regulation 7, after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

“(1A) Paragraph (1) shall not apply where ammonium nitrate or a mixture containing ammonium nitrate is the hazardous substance by reason of which the activity is notifiable.”

(4) After regulation 8 there shall be added the following regulation –

“Transitional provision for ammonium nitrate

9.   Where –

(a) on 27th October 2003 a person is undertaking an activity in which there is or is liable to be at any one time a notifiable quantity or more of a hazardous substance consisting of ammonium nitrate or a mixture containing ammonium nitrate; or

(b) a person commences such activity within 4 weeks after that date,

it shall be sufficient compliance with regulation 3(1) if he notifies to the Executive the particulars specified in Schedule 2 within 4 weeks after that date.”

(5) In Part I of Schedule 1, there shall be added at the end of column 1 the entry “Ammonium nitrate and mixtures containing ammonium nitrate where the nitrogen content is more than 15.75% but does not exceed 27.65% of the mixture by weight.” and in column 2 the corresponding entry “150”.

(1)

S.R. 1984 No. 177, as amended by S.R. 1985 No. 175, S.R. 1997 No. 193 and S.R. 1999 No. 150