The Radioactive Material (Road Transport) (Great Britain) Regulations 1996

General prohibitions

6.  No person shall—

(a) transport radioactive material in a vehicle which is a public service vehicle within the meaning of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(1) or a tramcar or trolley vehicle within the meaning of the Road Traffic Act 1988(2); or

(b) transport radioactive material in a vehicle which is carrying any explosive substance within the meaning of the Road Traffic (Carriage of Explosives) Regulations 1989(3) except under special arrangement in accordance with regulation 15; or

(c) transport any package in a vehicle if he knows or has reason to believe that the package has or may have been damaged, unless the consignor of the package or his agent has made a declaration in the terms set out in paragraph 20 of Schedule 20 after the incident giving rise to the damage or possibility of damage, and that declaration is transported with the package; or

(d) transport in a vehicle any packaging bearing a label described in Schedule 18 which does not correspond to the contents of that packaging.

(1)

1981 c. 14; the definition of “public service vehicle” in section 1 was amended by the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67), section 139(3) and Schedule 8.

(2)

1988 c. 52; the definition of “trolley vehicle” in section 192(1) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), section 48 and Schedule 4.

(3)

S.I. 1989/615.