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

2.  In regulation 2—

(a) in paragraph (1), for the words “paragraphs (2) and (3)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (2) to (7)”;

(b) at the end, there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“(5) These Regulations shall not apply to, or in relation to, the carriage of radioactive material—

(a) by, or under the supervision of, the emergency services;

(b) as a result of an emergency, with the intention of saving human life or protecting the environment, provided that all measures are taken to ensure that such carriage is carried out safely.

(6) These Regulations do not apply to, or in relation to—

(a) the carriage of luminous devices worn by a person or luminous devices as part of a railway vehicle;

(b) the carriage in any one railway vehicle of no more than 500 smoke detectors for domestic use with an individual activity not exceeding 40 kBq; or

(c) the carriage of gaseous tritium light devices with an individual activity not exceeding 10 GBq when no more than five such devices are carried in the railway vehicle.

(7) These Regulations shall not apply to, or in relation to, the carriage of radioactive material in packages where—

(a) the carriage is by any person whose main activity is not the carriage of dangerous goods;

(b) the carriage is for the purpose of—

(i) survey, repair or maintenance activities, or

(ii) deliveries to building or civil engineering sites; and

(c) each such package is an excepted package.”.