The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 2536

CIVIL AVIATION

The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made

13th October 1998

Coming into force

1st January 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 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) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.

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 1999–2000 English language edition of the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air 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 the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Glenda Jackson

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

13th October 1998

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” now refers to the 1999–2000 English language edition of the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air approved and published by decision of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Regulation 2).

The 1999–2000 English language edition of the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air can be purchased from–

Freight Merchandising Services,

Unit 19,

Ashford Industrial Estate,

Shield Road,

Ashford,

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,

Gloucestershire

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 and 1997/2666.