PART 3Miscellaneous Amendments to Secondary Legislation

The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 20155.

(1)

The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 201518 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—

(a)

in the definition of “the Directive”, for “96/98/EC” substitute “96/82/EC”;

(b)

omit the definition of “pipelines”;

(c)

for the definition of “storage” substitute—

““storage” includes warehousing, depositing in safe custody or keeping in stock;”.

(3)

In regulation 3 (application and exceptions), in paragraph (2) after sub-paragraph (c) insert—

“(ca)

the transport of dangerous substances in pipelines, including associated apparatus, except where that activity takes place at a site which is an establishment despite that activity;

(cb)

the transport of dangerous substances and directly related intermediate temporary storage by road, rail, internal waterways, sea or air, including loading and unloading and transport to and from another means of transport at docks, wharves or marshalling yards, except where that activity takes place at a site which is an establishment despite that activity;”.