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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 and come into operation on 18th June 2019.
2. In these Regulations, “the 2010 Regulations” means the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010(1).
3. In regulation 4 (application),
(a)after paragraph (1), insert—
“(1A) Part 5 of these Regulations also applies in relation to the carriage of class 7 goods by inland waterway.”;
(b)in paragraph (2), for “These Regulations” substitute “Parts 1 to 4, 6 and 7 of these Regulations”.
4. For the heading to Part 5, substitute “Radiation Emergencies and Notifiable Events”.
5. For regulation 20 substitute—
20.—(1) This Part applies in relation to the carriage of class 7 goods only.
(2) Schedule 2 makes provision in connection with radiation emergencies and notifiable events.
(3) But this Part shall not apply to carriage by vehicles or wagons belonging to or under the responsibility of one of the armed forces.”.
6. For Schedule 2, substitute the Schedule 2 set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
7.—(1) Any person who had a duty under Schedule 2 to the 2010 Regulations prior to these Regulations coming into operation shall continue to comply with the provisions of that Schedule, as that Schedule had effect before the amendments made in regulations 5 and 6, until the relevant day.
(2) After the relevant day, the amendments to the 2010 Regulations made by these Regulations shall be complied with in full, save that any test of an emergency plan carried out in the three years prior to the relevant day is to be treated as though it were a test undertaken pursuant to paragraph 5 of Schedule 2.
(3) In this regulation, “the relevant day” means the day twelve months after the day on which these Regulations come into operation.
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