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

Grant of unilateral and multilateral approvals by the Northern Ireland competent authority in relation to class 7 goods for carriage by rail

28.—(1) The Northern Ireland competent authority may—

(a) grant unilateral approvals in respect of designs—

(i) of packages; or

(ii) special form radioactive material,

that originate in Northern Ireland; and

(b) validate unilateral approvals of such designs made by competent authorities in countries which are not a party to COTIF,

in respect of those matters where RID provides for such approval or validation and the references to which are set out in paragraph 3 of Part II of Schedule 3 and subject to the conditions set out in paragraph 5 of Part II of Schedule 3.

(2) An approval shall be validated in accordance with paragraph (1) if the conditions in sub-section 6.4.22.6 of RID have been met.

(3) The Northern Ireland competent authority may grant approvals, as part of a multilateral approval, in respect of—

(a) designs of packages or low dispersible radioactive material or shipments originating in Northern Ireland; or

(b) shipments which are to be carried by rail in Northern Ireland,

in respect of those matters where RID makes provision for such approvals and the references to which are set out in paragraph 4 of Part II of Schedule 3 subject to the conditions set out in paragraph 5 of Part II of Schedule 3.