PART 1INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

Interpretation of ADR, RID and ADN for the purposes of these RegulationsI13

For the purposes of these Regulations—

a

the scope of the ADR, RID and ADN shall be deemed to include national as well as international carriage;

b

a member State of the F1EU which is not a Contracting Party to ADR or ADN shall be deemed to be a Contracting Party to ADR or ADN (as the case may be);

c

a member State of the F2EU which is not a Member State of COTIF shall be deemed to be a Member State of COTIF;

d

a reference in—

i

ADR or RID to “competent military authority”;

ii

ADR or ADN to “Contracting Party”; and

iii

RID to “Member State”,

shall be treated as a reference to “the Northern Ireland competent authority” unless the context requires otherwise;

e

Sub-section 1.1.4.4 of RID shall apply as if the words “or the provisions of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 in so far as they relate to carriage by road” were included after the words “provisions of ADR”;

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i

the words “The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties may provide that” are omitted from Sub-section 1.8.3.2 of ADR;

j

the words “The competent authorities of the Member States may provide that” are omitted from Sub-section 1.8.3.2 of RID;

k

the reference in Sub-section 1.8.3.3 to “national authorities” shall be treated as a reference to “the Northern Ireland competent authority or an enforcement authority”; F7...

l

Sub-section 5.3.4 of RID is omitted F5;

m

Sub-sections 2.2.1.1.2, 2.2.1.1.3 and 2.2.1.1.4 of ADR apply as if the words “by the competent authority of a Contracting Party” were included after the word “assigned”; and

n

Sub-sections 2.2.1.1.2, 2.2.1.1.3 and 2.2.1.1.4 of RID apply as if the words “by the competent authority of a Member State of COTIF” were included after the word “assigned”.