The Packaging, Labelling and Carriage of Radioactive Material by Rail Regulations 1996

Information to be displayed during carriage

34.—(1) The consignor of any package or overpack for carriage shall ensure that prior to carriage information concerning the radioactive contents thereof is displayed on the package or overpack concerned in accordance with Parts I and III of Schedule 13.

(2) The operator of any freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon which is being used for the carriage of radioactive material shall ensure that information concerning that material is displayed on the freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon concerned in accordance with Parts II and III of Schedule 13.

(3) No person shall cause or permit any of the information referred to in Schedule 13 to be displayed on any package, overpack, freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon concerning radioactive material which is no longer being carried therein.

(4) No person shall cause or permit any information to be displayed on a package, overpack, freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon which would be likely to confuse the emergency services when read in conjunction with any information displayed in accordance with Schedule 13.

(5) Nothing in these Regulations or in the Approved Document shall prevent the display of information, in addition to the information required to be displayed in accordance with Schedule 13, on any package, overpack, freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon concerning any radioactive material being carried therein, provided such information is not displayed on orange-coloured panels.

(6) The operator of any freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon which is being used for the carriage of radioactive material shall ensure that any danger sign, orange-coloured panel or subsidiary hazard sign affixed thereto in accordance with Schedule 13 is clean and free from obstruction when the freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon concerned is handed over to the train operator.

(7) No operator of a train shall cause or permit to be carried therein any radioactive material in a package, overpack, freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon unless he has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that information concerning that material is displayed on the package, overpack, freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon concerned in accordance with Schedule 13.

(8) The operator of a train which is being used for the carriage of radioactive material in a package, overpack, freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that any danger sign, orange-coloured panel or subsidiary hazard sign affixed thereto in accordance with Schedule 13 is kept clean and free from obstruction during carriage.

(9) No person shall—

(a) remove any danger sign, orange-coloured panel or subsidiary hazard sign affixed in accordance with Schedule 13 from a package, overpack, freight container, tank container, tank wagon or wagon which is being used for the carriage of radioactive material, except for the purpose of updating the information thereon;

(b) falsify any of the information on such a sign or panel.