The Dangerous Goods in Harbour Areas Regulations 2016

Interpretation E+W+S

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 1987 Regulations” means the Dangerous Substances in Harbour Areas Regulations 1987(1);

“appropriate authority” means—

(a)

in relation to a harbour which is, or forms part of, an ONR regulated site, the Office for Nuclear Regulation,

(b)

otherwise, the Health and Safety Executive;

“berth” means a dock, jetty, quay, wharf or similar structure (whether floating or not) or a buoy berth at which a vessel may tie up, and—

(a)

includes any plant or premises, other than a vessel, used for purposes ancillary or incidental to the handling of dangerous goods within the harbour area; but

(b)

does not include a monobuoy;

“Class” has the same meaning as in the IMDG Code;

“Compatibility Group” has the same meaning as in the IMDG Code;

“dangerous goods” is defined in regulation 3;

“Division” has the same meaning as in the IMDG Code;

“dumb craft” means a vessel not possessing mechanical means of propulsion and includes a dumb barge and a dracone;

“explosive” means goods of Class 1 in the IMDG Code ;

“explosives licence” means a licence issued by the Health and Safety Executive or the Office for Nuclear Regulation under Part 5 of these Regulations;

“freight container” means a container as defined in regulation 2(1) of the Freight Containers (Safety Convention) Regulations 1984(2) other than a container within the definition of “portable tank” in those Regulations;

“handling” in relation to dangerous goods includes loading, unloading and transferring the goods and cleaning, purging, gas-freeing and ballasting any tank on a vessel which contains dangerous goods or their vapour;

“harbour area” means any harbour, natural or artificial, and any port, haven, estuary, tidal or other river or inland waterway navigated by seagoing vessels, including—

(a)

all areas of water within the jurisdiction of a statutory harbour authority;

(b)

any land, within the jurisdiction of or occupied by a statutory harbour authority, used in connection with the loading or unloading of a vessel;

(c)

any berth where the handling of any dangerous goods takes place;

(d)

any monobuoy connected to one or more storage facilities in a harbour area and its monobuoy area;

(e)

any land adjacent to the harbour area used wholly or mainly for the normal activities of a harbour,

but excluding areas of water which are in the jurisdiction of another statutory harbour authority where those areas of water are used primarily by vessels using berths or land within the harbour area of that other statutory authority;

“harbour authority” means—

(a)

a statutory harbour authority; or

(b)

where there is no provision for a statutory harbour authority in respect of a harbour area, a person—

(i)

who is, or claims to be, the proprietor of that harbour area, or

(ii)

who has the duty or power to improve, manage, maintain or regulate that harbour area;

“harbour craft” means a self-propelled craft which is used wholly or mainly within a harbour area;

“harbour master” means the harbour master, dock master or other officer appointed by the harbour authority, or any person having authority to act in such capacity;

“headquarters” means those headquarters or organisations designated under the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964(3);

“IMDG Code” means the 2014 edition of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code as amended by Amendment no. 37-14 and as revised or reissued from time to time(4);

“loading” and “unloading” means the acts of loading and unloading a vessel and includes any acts of ullaging, sounding or sampling carried out in connection with those acts and the handling of dangerous goods ancillary to such acts;

“master” includes any person, other than a marine pilot, having charge of a vessel:

“monobuoy” means a mooring buoy at which dangerous goods may be loaded onto or unloaded from a vessel and which is connected to one or more storage facilities in a harbour area and includes any pipeline connecting to it;

“monobuoy area” means the area of water surrounding a monobuoy where loading or unloading of dangerous goods takes place but does not extend to the area of water surrounding the pipeline or pipelines connected to it;

“ONR regulated site” means a site which is—

(a)

a GB nuclear site (within the meaning given in section 68 of the Energy Act 2013(5));

(b)

an authorised defence site (within the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998(6)); or

(c)

a new nuclear build site (within the meaning given in regulation 2A of those Regulations);

“operator” is defined in regulation 4;

“portable tank” means a portable tank with a capacity of 450 litres or more, or a tank as defined in ADR 2015 (the European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road) as revised or reissued from time to time(7);

“receptacle” includes any form of packaging used for the transport of dangerous goods, but does not include a freight container, a portable tank or a vehicle;

“statutory harbour authority” has the same meaning as “harbour authority” has in the Harbours Act 1964(8);

“vessel” means any vessel, propelled or not, and includes a dumb craft, hovercraft, a hydrofoil vessel, anything constructed or adapted to carry persons or goods by water and a flying boat or seaplane on the water;

“visiting forces” means visiting forces within the meaning of Part 1 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952(9).

(2) Any duty imposed upon a master of a vessel shall, in relation to a dumb craft, be imposed—

(a) while the dumb craft is being towed, upon the master of the towing vessel;

(b) at any other time, upon the operator of the dumb craft.

(3) Any reference in these Regulations to the quantity of any explosive shall be construed as a reference to the net mass of explosive substance.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 2 in force at 1.10.2016, see reg. 1

(1)

S.I. 1987/37.

(2)

S.I. 1984/1890.

(3)

1964 c.5.

(4)

ISBN: 978-92-801-1597-0.

(5)

2013 c.32.

(6)

S.I. 1998/494; insertions made by S.I. 2014/469, there are other amendments to the instrument which are not relevant to these Regulations.

(7)

ISBN: 978-92-1-139149-7.

(8)

1964 c.40.

(9)

1952 c.67.