Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

6.  For paragraph (7) of regulation 12, there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(7) The driver and the operator of a vehicle which—

(a) is being used for the carriage of infectious substances, toxic goods or any of the following goods—

• UN 2212 BLUE ASBESTOS (crocidolite) or BROWN ASBESTOS (amosite, mysorite)

• UN 2315 POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS

• UN 2590 WHITE ASBESTOS (chrysotile, actinolite, anthophyllite or tremolite)

• UN 3151 POLYHALOGENATED BIPHENYLS, LIQUID or POLY-HALOGENATED TERPHENYLS, LIQUID

• UN 3152 POLYHALOGENATED BIPHENYLS, SOLID or POLY-HALOGENATED TERPHENYLS, SOLID

• UN 3245 GENETICALLY MODIFIED MICRO-ORGANISMS; or

(b) is empty, uncleaned, having been used for the carriage of any such goods,

shall ensure that no food and no fodder or feeding stuffs for animals, birds or fish is carried in that vehicle unless that food, fodder or feeding stuff is effectively separated from any such goods by—

(i) complete partitions as high as the packages containing such goods;

(ii) packages containing goods other than those mentioned in sub-paragraph (a); or

(iii) a space of at least 0·8m,

or is otherwise adequately protected, by additional packaging or complete coverage of those goods, from the risk of contamination by those goods.”.