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

3.  In regulation 4—

(a) at the end of paragraph (2), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(c) in regulation 2(1)(b), the vocational training certificate shall be appropriate to the carriage of radioactive material.”;

(b) at the end of paragraph (5) (but before the full stop), there shall be inserted the words “, except that in the case of the subject specified in paragraph 3(c) of Schedule 3, the training need not be accompanied by practical exercises”;

(c) in paragraph (6)—

(i) for the words “for periods of up to 5 years by the Secretary of State” there shall be substituted the words “by the Secretary of State for periods of up to 5 years from the date of expiry of the original certificate or of any extension of it granted in accordance with this paragraph,”, and

(ii) for sub-paragraph (b), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b) passed an examination (the syllabus of which shall cover the course referred to in sub-paragraph (a)) which has been approved by the Secretary of State; and”; and

(d) after paragraph (6), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(6A) The course referred to in paragraph (6)(a) shall be given in the form of a theoretical course accompanied by practical exercises and shall cover new technical, legal and substance-related developments in at least the subjects specified in—

(a) paragraph 1 of Schedule 3;

(b) in the case of a vocational training certificate referred to in paragraph (2)(a), paragraph 3 of Schedule 3;

(c) in the case of a vocational training certificate referred to in paragraph (2)(b), paragraph 2 of Schedule 3; and

(d) in the case of a vocational training certificate referred to in paragraph (2)(c), paragraph 4 of Schedule 3,

except that in the case of the subject specified in paragraph 3(c) of Schedule 3, the training need not be accompanied by practical exercises.”.