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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Potteries etc. (Modifications) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 26th March 1990.
2.—(1) After regulation 3 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980(1), there shall be inserted the following regulation—
3A.—(1) The use of any glaze other than a leadless glaze or a low solubility glaze in the manufacture of pottery is prohibited.
(2) In this regulation—
“glaze” does not include engobe or slip;
“leadless glaze” means a glaze which does not contain more than one per cent of its dry weight of a lead compound calculated as lead monoxide;
“low solubility glaze” means a glaze which does not yield to dilute hydrochloric acid more than 5 per cent of its dry weight of a soluble lead compound when determined in accordance with a method approved in writing for the time being by the Health and Safety Commission.”
(3) In Regulation 7 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980, after the words “of a type approved” there shall be inserted the words “or conforming to a standard approved, in either case,”.
3. The instruments specified in column 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be revoked to the extent set out in the entry opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule.
Signed by order of the Secretary of State
Patrick Nicholls
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Employment
16th February 1990
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