The Carriage of Explosives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

2.  In regulation 3—

(a)for paragraph (2), substitute the following paragraph—

(2) Regulations 7 to 9 and 11 shall not apply to explosives which are carried or consigned for carriage between—

(a)private premises and a vehicle in the immediate vicinity of those premises; or

(b)one part of private premises and another part of those premises situated in the immediate vicinity of that first part, notwithstanding that those parts may be separated by a road.; and

(b)for sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (4), substitute the following sub-paragraph—

(d)the carriage of explosives which have not been classified under the 1991 Regulations or which have been allocated on classification the UN Number 0190 where—

(i)those explosives are not initiating explosives,

(ii)those explosives are a commercial sample or a sample for one or more of the purposes of research and development, quality control, their testing or in connection with an application for their classification under the 1991 Regulations, and

(iii)the carriage is in accordance with such conditions as are approved in writing for the time being by the Secretary of State 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;.