Amendment of the Quarries Regulations 1999
9. The Quarries Regulations 1999 shall be amended—
S.I. 1999/2024.
(a) in regulation 2(1), by substituting for the definition of “explosives” the following definitions—
“explosive article” means an article containing one or more explosive substances;
“explosive substance” means—
(a) a solid or liquid substance; or
(b) a mixture of solid or liquid substances or both, which is capable by chemical reaction in itself of producing gas at such a temperature and pressure and at such a speed as could cause damage to surroundings or which is designed to produce an effect by heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of these as a result of non-detonative self-sustaining exothermic chemical reactions;
“explosives” means explosive articles or explosive substances;
(b) in regulation 33(4) by substituting, for the word “undertaken”, the word “completed”;
(c) in regulation 45(4) by substituting, for the word “(2)”, the word “(3)”.