The Carriage of Explosives by Road Regulations 1996

Limits on quantities

13.—(1) Subject to Part I of Schedule 3, the operator of a vehicle which was constructed—

(a) on or after 1st January 1997 and which is of a type specified in column 1 of the Table in Part II of Schedule 3, shall ensure that there is not carried therein explosives in any of the Divisions specified in columns 2 to 7 of the Table in excess of the quantity specified for that type of vehicle and the Division of the explosives concerned in the corresponding entry thereof;

(b) before 1st January 1997, shall ensure that there is not carried therein, explosives of the type specified in column 1 of the Table in Part III of that Schedule in excess of the quantity specified for that type of explosive in the corresponding entry in column 2 thereof.

(2) It shall be sufficient compliance with paragraph (1)(b) if paragraph (1)(a) is complied with as if the vehicle was constructed on or after 1st January 1997.

(3) Nothing in this regulation or Schedule 3 shall be construed as allowing a greater quantity of explosives to be carried than that for which the vehicle and any container in which the explosives are carried, are suitable as described in regulation 10.

(4) Where explosives are being carried in—

(a) a container in or on a vehicle; or

(b) a trailer, other than a semi-trailer, attached to a vehicle,

and in order to comply with paragraph (1)(a) the vehicle needs to satisfy a particular requirement of the Approved Explosives Vehicle Requirements as to the construction of the body of the vehicle, it shall be sufficient compliance with that requirement if it is satisfied by the container or trailer, as the case may be, as if it were a vehicle.