The Packaging, Labelling and Carriage of Radioactive Material by Rail Regulations 1996

PART III: APPROVALS

Approval of design for special form radioactive material

5.—(1) No person shall cause or permit to be carried any special form radioactive material without unilateral approval of the design for that material.

(2) Where the design for special form radioactive material originated in the United Kingdom, an application for approval of the design by the Secretary of State shall include the information specified in Schedule 2.

(3) The approval by the Secretary of State of a design for special form radioactive material which originated in the United Kingdom shall be given by the issue of a special form radioactive material approval certificate stating that the design meets the requirements for special form radioactive material specified in paragraph 5 of the Approved Document.

(4) The approval of a design for special form radioactive material which originated in a state other than the United Kingdom shall be evidenced by a special form radioactive material approval certificate issued by the competent authority of the state of origin of the design stating that the design meets requirements equivalent to those referred to in paragraph (3).

Approval of Type B(U) package designs

6.—(1) No person shall cause or permit to be carried any Type B(U) package without unilateral approval of the package design for that package or, in the case of a package containing fissile material and requiring approval under regulation 8(1), multilateral approval of the package design for that package.

(2) An application for approval of a package design for a Type B(U) package by the Secretary of State shall include the information specified in Schedule 3.

(3) The approval by the Secretary of State of a package design for a Type B(U) package shall be given by the issue of a package design approval certificate stating that the package design meets the requirements for Type B(U) packages specified in paragraphs 11 and 12 of the Approved Document.

(4) The approval by a competent authority other than the Secretary of State of a package design for a Type B(U) package shall be evidenced by a package design approval certificate issued by that competent authority stating that the package design meets requirements equivalent to those referred to in paragraph (3).

Approval of Type B(M) package designs

7.—(1) No person shall cause or permit to be carried any Type B(M) package without multilateral approval of the package design for that package.

(2) An application for approval of a package design for a Type B(M) package by the Secretary of State shall include the information specified in Schedule 4.

(3) The approval by the Secretary of State of a package design for a Type B(M) package shall be given by the issue of a package design approval certificate stating that the package design meets the requirements for Type B(M) packages specified in paragraphs 11 and 13 of the Approved Document.

(4) The approval by a competent authority other than the Secretary of State of a package design for a Type B(M) package shall be evidenced by a package design approval certificate issued by that competent authority stating that the package design meets requirements equivalent to those referred to in paragraph (3).

Approval of package designs for fissile material

8.—(1) No person shall cause or permit to be carried any package containing fissile material, other than a package containing fissile material which falls within paragraph 7 of the Approved Document, without multilateral approval of the package design for that package.

(2) An application for the approval of a package design for fissile material by the Secretary of State shall include the information specified in Schedule 5.

(3) The approval by the Secretary of State of a package design for fissile material shall be given by the issue of a package design approval certificate stating that the design meets the requirements for fissile packages specified in paragraph 6 of the Approved Document.

(4) The approval by a competent authority other than the Secretary of State of a package design for such material shall be evidenced by a package design approval certificate issued by that competent authority stating that the design meets requirements equivalent to those referred to in paragraph (3).

Saving and transitional provision for designs approved under earlier international regulations or under previous regulations

9.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, notwithstanding the provisions of regulations 6 to 8 of these Regulations or regulation 32 of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail Regulations 1996(1), any packaging, the construction of which was commenced before these Regulations came into force and which is manufactured to a design approved by a competent authority under the Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material 1973 Edition(2), the 1973 (as amended) Edition(3) of those Regulations or the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail Regulations 1994(4) may continue to be used for the carriage of radioactive material.

(2) The use of any packaging falling within paragraph (1) shall require multilateral approval.

(3) Before use, any packaging falling within paragraph (1) shall be legibly and durably marked with a serial number assigned in accordance with paragraph 9 of Schedule 13.

(4) Paragraph (1) shall not apply where changes which have been made in the design of the packaging or in the nature or quantity of the authorised radioactive contents are likely to affect safety.

Approval of shipments under special arrangement

10.—(1) Radioactive material, whose carriage is otherwise prohibited by regulation 17(5), 19 or 20(2), may be carried under special arrangement with multilateral approval.

(2) Approval may not be given by the Secretary of State to a shipment under special arrangement unless the provisions for carriage are adequate to ensure that the overall level of safety during carriage is at least equivalent to that which would have been achieved if all the applicable requirements of these Regulations had been met.

(3) An application for approval by the Secretary of State of a shipment under special arrangement shall include the information specified in Schedule 6.

(4) The approval by the Secretary of State of a shipment under special arrangement shall be given by the issue of a special arrangement approval certificate.

(5) The approval by a competent authority of a state other than the United Kingdom of a shipment under special arrangement shall be evidenced by a special arrangement approval certificate issued by that competent authority.

Approval of other shipments

11.—(1) No person shall cause or permit to be made any shipment of the following without multilateral approval of the shipment—

(a) a Type B(M) package especially designed to allow controlled intermittent venting;

(b) a Type B(M) package containing radioactive material with an activity greater than either—

(i) 3×10³ A₁ or 3×10³ A₂, as appropriate, or

(ii) 1000 TBq,

whichever is the lower; or

(c) packages containing fissile material where the sum of the Transport Indexes of the individual packages exceeds 50.

(2) An application for approval by the Secretary of State of a shipment falling within paragraph (1) shall include the information specified in Schedule 7.

(3) The approval by the Secretary of State of a shipment falling within paragraph (1) shall be given by the issue of a certificate.

(4) The approval by a competent authority other than the Secretary of State of a shipment falling within paragraph (1) shall be evidenced by a certificate issued by that competent authority.

(1)

S.I. 1996/            .

(2)

Published by the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna 1973, Safety Series No. 6 (STI/PUB 323).

(3)

Published by the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna 1979, Safety Series No. 6 (ISBN 92—0—623179—0).

(4)

S.I. 1994/670.