The Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Regulations 2002

Particulars of consignment

17.  The consignor must include in the transport documents with each consignment the following information, as applicable—

(a) a heading or a reference to these regulations;

(b) the name of the consignor and an address and telephone number by which he can be contacted in the event of an accident occurring during the transport of a consignment;

(c) the name and address of the consignee;

(d) the proper shipping name, as specified in column 2 of Table VIII in Schedule 1;

(e) the United Nations Class Number “7”;

(f) the United Nations Number assigned to the material as specified in column 1 of Table VIII in Schedule 1, the number is to be prefixed with the letters “UN”;

(g) the name or symbol of each radionuclide or, for mixtures of radionuclides, an appropriate general description or a list of the most restrictive nuclides;

(h) a description of the physical and chemical form of the material, or a notation that the material is special form radioactive material or low dispersible radioactive material. A generic chemical description is acceptable for chemical form;

(i) the maximum activity of the radioactive contents during transport expressed in units of becquerels with an appropriate SI prefix. For fissile material, the mass of fissile material in grams (g), or appropriate multiples thereof, may be used in place of activity;

(j) the category of the package, i.e., I-WHITE, II-YELLOW, or III-YELLOW;

(k) the Transport Index (TI) (categories II-YELLOW and III-YELLOW only);

(l) for consignments including fissile material other than consignments where all of the packages meet the requirements of paragraph 3 of Part XIV of Schedule 8, the criticality safety index (CSI);

(m) the identification mark for each competent authority approval certificate (special form radioactive material, low dispersible radioactive material, special arrangement, package design, or shipment) applicable to the consignment;

(n) for consignments of packages in an overpack or freight container, a detailed statement of the contents of each package within the overpack or freight container and, where appropriate, of each overpack or freight container in the consignment. If packages are to be removed from the overpack or freight container at a point of intermediate unloading, appropriate transport documentation must be made available;

(o) where a consignment is required to be shipped under exclusive use, the statement “EXCLUSIVE USE SHIPMENT”; and

(p) for LSA-II, LSA-III, SCO-I and SCO-II the total activity of the consignment as a multiple of A₂.