The Carriage of Explosives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 1 Amendments to the Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991

1.  In regulation 6—

(a) in paragraph (6), for the words “A packaged article or substance or a combination of them or an unpackaged article” substitute “An article, whether in packaging or not”, and for the numbers “0015, 0016, 0018, 0019, 0113, 0301 or 0303” substitute “0018, 0019 or 0301”;

(b) after paragraph (6), insert the following paragraph—

“(7) An article, whether in packaging or not, to which these Regulations apply, allocated on classification the United Nations Serial Number 0015, 0016 or 0303 and containing a substance which, if classified in accordance with regulation 5 of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) and Use of Transportable Pressure Receptacles Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(1) (whether or not it is required to be so classified), would be classified as corrosive, shall bear a label in accordance with paragraph 17 of Schedule 3, and “classified” in this paragraph shall have the meaning assigned to it in those Regulations.”

2.  In regulation 9(2), for the words “or (6)” substitute “, (6) or (7)”.

3.  In Schedule 2, in the Compatibility Group entry for the Compatibility Group B insert the words “do not” before the word “contain”.

4.  In paragraph 17 of Schedule 3, after the words “regulation 6(6)” insert “or (7)”.

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S.R. 1997/247