The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 2004

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

   3. 3. Application

   4. 4. Application to international carriage

   5. 5. Application to tanks, pressure receptacles, battery-vehicles, battery-wagons, MEGCs, UN-certified MEGCs and transportable pressure equipment

   6. 6. Application to armed forces

   7. 7. Exemptions

   8. 8. Competent authority

3. PART 2 REQUIREMENTS OF ADR AND RID

   1. 9. Training

   2. 10. Safety obligations

   3. 11. Class 7 goods for carriage by rail

   4. 12. Safety advisers

   5. 13. Reports on accidents or incidents

   6. 14. Emergency plans for marshalling yards

   7. 15. Classification of goods

   8. 16. Prohibition from carriage

   9. 17. Dangerous goods list and special provisions

   10. 18. Use of packagings

   11. 19. Use of tanks, battery-vehicles, battery-wagons, MEGCs and UN-certified MEGCs

   12. 20. Consignment

   13. 21. Construction and testing of packagings and packages

   14. 22. Construction and testing of tanks, MEGCs and UN-certified MEGCs

   15. 23. Carriage, loading, unloading and handling

   16. 24. Vehicle crews, equipment, operation and documentation

   17. 25. Construction and approval of vehicles

4. PART 3 COMPETENT AUTHORITY FUNCTIONS

   1. 26. Interpretation of Part 3 and Schedule 3

   2. 27. Grant of approvals by the GB competent authority

   3. 28. Grant of unilateral and multilateral approvals by the GB competent authority in relation to class 7 goods for carriage by rail

   4. 29. Appointment of persons by the GB competent authority

   5. 30. Recognition of approvals, tests, methods, standards and procedures etc. by the GB competent authority

   6. 31. Imposing of requirements by the GB competent authority

   7. 32. Issuing of safety adviser vocational training certificates by the GB competent authority

   8. 33. Issuing of driver training certificates by the GB competent authority

   9. 34. Notification under sub-section 1.8.2.2 of ADR or of RID

   10. 35. Miscellaneous functions of the GB competent authority

   11. 36. Exemption certificates, temporary and ad hoc exemptions

5. PART 4 TRANSPORTABLE PRESSURE EQUIPMENT

   1. 37. Interpretation of Part 4

   2. 38. Placing on the market and use at work of transportable pressure equipment

   3. 39. Transportable pressure equipment placed on the market and used at work exclusively in Great Britain

   4. 40. Reassessment of conformity

   5. 41. Periodic inspection and repeated use

   6. 42. Notified bodies

   7. 43. Approved bodies

   8. 44. Appointment of notified bodies and approved bodies by the competent authority

   9. 45. Conformity marking

6. PART 5 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS TO ADR AND RID

   1. 46. Attendant for carriage of class 1 goods by road

   2. 47. Duration of carriage and delivery of class 1 goods by road

   3. 48. Miscellaneous security requirements for carriage of class 1 goods by road

   4. 49. Miscellaneous security requirements for carriage of class 1 goods by rail

   5. 50. Security requirement for carriage of class 1 goods by road or rail and class 7 goods by rail

   6. 51. Carriage of class 1 goods in vehicles used to carry passengers for hire or reward

   7. 52. Carriage of class 1 goods by road in motor vehicles

   8. 53. Marshalling and formation of trains

   9. 54. Keeping of information by carriers

   10. 55. Placards, marks and plate markings for carriage within Great Britain

7. PART 6 MISCELLANEOUS

   1. 56. Fees for applications relating to pressure receptacles and tanks

   2. 57. Transitional defence

   3. 58. Defence and enforcement

   4. 59. Amendments to the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2004

   5. 60. Amendments to Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002

   6. 61. Amendments to the Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations 1983

   7. 62. Consequential amendments

   8. 63. Revocations and savings

8. Signature

9. SCHEDULES

   1. Schedule 1:

      Old tanks

   2. Schedule 2:

      Old pressure receptacles

   3. Schedule 3:

      Competent authority functions

   4. Schedule 4:

      Conformity assessment procedure

   5. Schedule 5:

      Modules to be followed for conformity assessment

   6. Schedule 6:

      Conformity reassessment procedures

   7. Schedule 7:

      Periodic inspection procedures

   8. Schedule 8:

      Conformity marking

   9. Schedule 9:

      Placards, marks and plate markings for carriage within Great Britain

   10. Schedule 10:

       Amendments to the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2004

   11. Schedule 11:

       Amendments to the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002

   12. Schedule 12:

       Amendments to the Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations 1983

   13. Schedule 13:

       Consequential amendments

   14. Schedule 14:

       Revocations

10. Explanatory Note