The Carriage of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Interpretation of ADR, RID and ADN for the purposes of these Regulations

3.  For the purposes of these Regulations—

(a) the scope of ADR, RID and ADN shall be deemed to include national as well as international carriage;

(b) a member State of the Communities which is not a Contracting Party to ADR or ADN shall be deemed to be a Contracting Party to ADR or ADN (as the case may be);

(c) a member State of the Communities which is not a member State of COTIF shall be deemed to be a member State of COTIF;

(d) a reference in—

(i) ADR or RID to “competent military authority”;

(ii) ADR or ADN to “Contracting Party”; and

(iii) RID to “member State”,

shall be treated as a reference to “competent authority” unless the context requires otherwise;

(e) Sub-section 1.1.4.4 of RID shall apply as if the words “or the provisions of the Carriage of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 in so far as they relate to carriage by road” were included after the words “provisions of ADR”;

(f) Sub-section 1.6.4.34 shall be treated as reading “The requirements of 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 6.8.4 TA4 and TT9 do not apply before 1 July 2011.”;

(g) the words “The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties may provide that” are omitted from Sub-section 1.8.3.2 of ADR;

(h) the words “The competent authorities of the member States may provide that” are omitted from Sub-section 1.8.3.2 of RID;

(i) the reference in Sub-section 1.8.3.3 to “national authorities” shall be treated as a reference to “the Nothern Ireland competent authority or an enforcement authority”; and

(j) Sub-section 5.3.4 of RID is omitted.