The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2666

CIVIL AVIATION

The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1997

Made

6th November 1997

Coming into force

1st December 1997

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by articles 52(1) and 118(6) of the Air Navigation (No. 2) Order 1995(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and Commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st December 1997.

Amendment of the Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1994

2.  The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1994(2) shall be further amended by substituting for the definition of “Technical Instructions” in regulation 3(1)—

““Technical Instructions” means the 1997—1998 English language edition of the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air as amended by the Addendum to those Instructions dated 11 August 1997 which was approved and published by decision of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation;”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Glenda Jackson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

6th November 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1994. The definition of “Technical Instructions” is amended so as to include an Addendum to the 1997—1998 edition of the International Civil Aviation’s Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Goods by Air containing instructions for the carriage of chemical oxygen generators.

The Technical Instructions and the Addendum can be purchased from—

Freight Merchandising Services

Unit 19

Ashwood Industrial Estate

Shield Road

Ashwood

Middlesex TW15 1AU

or

Labeline (Air, Sea and Road)

Holly House

14 Tenby Road

Frimley

Surrey GU16 5UT

or

Westward Digital Limited

37 Windsor Street

Cheltenham

Glos

GL52 2DG

(1)

S.I. 1995/1970, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

S.I. 1994/3187 as amended by S.I. 1996/3100.