The Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (revoked)

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 1 E+W+S AMENDMENTS TO THE CLASSIFICATION AND LABELLING OF EXPLOSIVES REGULATIONS 1983

1.  In regulation 2(1)— E+W+S

(a) for the definition of “Class 1", substitute the following—

““Class 1" means Class 1 in respect of explosives or the classification of dangerous goods set out in the United Nations Recommendations;”; and

(b) at the end of the definition of “unit load", add the following definition—

““the United Nations Recommendations" means the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (based on those originally prepared by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods considered by the Economic and Social Council at its twenty-third session (Resolution 645 G (XXIII) of 26th April 1957)) [Current Edition (1997): ISBN 92-1-139057 5], as revised or reissued from time to time and any reference in these Regulations to the United Nations Recommendations shall, for a period of 6 months after any revision or reissue, be a reference to either the document as it was immediately before that revision or reissue took effect or the document as revised or reissued;”.

2.  In regulation 4(1), for sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) substitute the following sub-paragraph— E+W+S

“(b) which has not been classified or which has been allocated on classification the United Nations Serial Number 0190 and which—

(i) does not include any initiating explosives,

(ii) is a commercial sample or a sample for one or more of the following purposes, namely research and development, quality control, their testing or in connection with an application for their classification, and

(iii) is in accordance with such conditions as are approved in writing for the time being by the Health and Safety Executive or, in the case of military explosives, by the Secretary of State for Defence, for the purposes of this regulation,

and in this sub-paragraph “initiating explosives" means explosives intended solely to cause the detonation of other explosives; or”.

3.  In regulation 6— E+W+S

(a) in paragraph (6), for the words “A packaged article or substance or a combination thereof or an unpackaged article" substitute “ An article, whether in packaging or not, ” and for the numbers “0015, 0016, 0018, 0019, 0113, 0301 or 0303" substitute “ 0018, 0019 or 0301 ”; and

(b) after paragraph (6), insert the following paragraph—

“(7) An article, whether in packaging or not, to which these Regulations apply, allocated on classification the United Nations Serial Number 0015, 0016 or 0303 and containing a substance which, if classified in accordance with regulation 5 of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) and Use of Transportable Pressure Receptacles Regulations 1996 [S.I. 1996/2092] (whether or not it is required to be so classified), would be classified as corrosive, shall bear a label in accordance with paragraph 17 of Schedule 3, and “classified" in this paragraph shall have the meaning assigned to it in those Regulations.”.

4.  In regulation 9(2), for the words “or (6)" substitute “ , (6) or (7) ”. E+W+S

5.  In paragraph (2) of regulation 14, for the words from “it is satisfied" to the end of the paragraph substitute “ it is satisfied that the environment, the security of the explosives and the health and safety of persons who are likely to be affected by the exemption will not be prejudiced in consequence of it ”. E+W+S

6.  In Schedule 2, in the Compatibility Group entry for the Compatibility Group B insert the words “ do not ” before the word “contain". E+W+S

7.  In paragraph 17 of Schedule 3, after the words “regulation 6(6)" insert “ or (7) ”. E+W+S