The Ammonium Nitrate Materials (High Nitrogen Content) Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2022

This Statutory Instrument corrects errors made in S.I. 2019/601 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2022 No. 29

Health And Safety

The Ammonium Nitrate Materials (High Nitrogen Content) Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Made

12th January 2022

Laid before Parliament

13th January 2022

Coming into force

4th February 2022

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 15(1) and (2), and 82(3)(a) of, and paragraphs 1(4) and 2(1) of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974(1), following consultation with the Health and Safety Executive, the Office for Nuclear Regulation and such other bodies as appeared to the Secretary of State to be appropriate in accordance with section 50(1AA)(2) of that Act, makes the following Regulations.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Ammonium Nitrate Materials (High Nitrogen Content) Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 4th February 2022.

Amendment of the Ammonium Nitrate Materials (High Nitrogen Content) Safety Regulations 2003

2.—(1) The Ammonium Nitrate Materials (High Nitrogen Content) Safety Regulations 2003(3) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 13—

(a) in paragraph (1), omit “from within the European Union, where that material is imported into Great Britain”;

(b) in paragraph (2)—

(i) for “regulation 2(2)(a)” substitute “regulation 2(2)”;

(ii) for “United Kingdom and the European Union” substitute “United Kingdom or the European Union”;

(c) in paragraph (3), after “does not apply” insert “to relevant ammonium nitrate imported into Great Britain from within the European Union”.

Victoria Prentis

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

12th January 2022

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Ammonium Nitrate Materials (High Nitrogen Content) Safety Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1082). Regulation 2 amends transitional provisions relating to EU Exit, to permit detonation resistance testing of ammonium nitrate imported into Great Britain from countries outside of the European Union to be carried out at competent laboratories based within the UK or the European Union, and to correct minor errors.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

(1)

1974 c. 37. Section 15(1) was substituted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 15 to the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71) and amended by S.I. 2002/794. Section 15(2) was amended by paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 12 to the Energy Act 2013 (c. 32).

(2)

Section 50(1AA) was substituted for section (1) by S.I. 2008/960 and amended by paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 12 to the Energy Act 2013.

(3)

S.I. 2003/1082, amended by S.I. 2019/601 (itself amended by S.I. 2020/998); there are other amending instruments but none are relevant.