The Road Traffic (Carriage of Dangerous Substances in Road Tankers and Tank Containers) Regulations 1992

Meaning of and revisions to the approved list

4.—(1) The Health and Safety Commission shall approve and publish for the purposes of these Regulations a list, entitled “the Road Tanker Approved List”, which contains—

(a) in Part I, a list of dangerous substances, and specifying—

(i) in Column 1, the names thereof in alphabetical order,

(ii) in Column 2, the substance identification numbers thereof,

(iii) in Column 3, the emergency action codes therefor,

(iv) in Column 4, the classifications thereof, and

(v) in Column 5, details of special provisions applicable thereto;

(b) in Part IIA, an interpretation of the emergency action code;

(c) in Part IIB, a method for ascertaining the emergency action codes for multiloads;

(d) in Part III, a numerical list of dangerous substances; and

(e) notes and other explanatory material which are requisite for its use.

(2) The Health and Safety Commission may approve a revision of the list referred to in paragraph (1) and, when it does so, the Commission shall within 3 months of the date of that approval publish a notice specifying the revision, the date on which it was approved and the date on which it takes effect, which last-mentioned date shall be not less than 6 months after the date of the approval of the revision; but during the period before the revision takes effect an operator may—

(a) mark a road tanker or tank container in accordance with that revision; and

(b) in a case where the Health and Safety Commission has approved an entry in the list referred to in paragraph (1) for an organic peroxide, carry that organic peroxide in accordance with that entry.