The Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging) Regulations 1993

Application of these Regulations

3.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), these Regulations shall apply to any substance or preparation which is dangerous for supply or carriage, except—

(a)a substance or preparation which is dangerous for supply or carriage by reason only that it is a radioactive substance within the meaning of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985(1);

(b)a substance or preparation which is—

(i)intended for use as an animal feeding stuff within the meaning of regulation 66(1) of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1991(2), and

(ii)in a finished state intended for the final user;

(c)a preparation which is intended for use as a cosmetic product within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Cosmetic Products (Safety) Regulations 1989(3) (including any aerosol containing a cosmetic product);

(d)a substance or preparation which is intended for use as—

(i)a medicinal product within the meaning of section 130 of the Medicines Act 1968(4), or

(ii)a substance or preparation specified in an order made under section 104 or 105 of the Medicines Act 1968 which is for the time being in force and which directs that specified provisions of that Act shall have effect in relation to that substance or preparation as such provisions have effect in relation to medicinal products within the meaning of that Act;

(e)a substance or preparation which is a controlled drug within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971(5) except that these Regulations shall apply to drugs which are excepted from section 4(1)(b) of that Act (which makes it unlawful to supply a controlled drug) by regulations made under section 7(1)(a) of that Act;

(f)a substance or preparation which is dangerous for supply or carriage by reason only that it contains disease producing micro-organisms; or

(g)a substance or preparation which is a sample taken by an authority responsible for the enforcement of any requirement imposed by or under any enactment.

(2) The provisions of these Regulations which relate to any substance or preparation which is dangerous for supply shall apply to any such substance or preparation which is supplied except—

(a)munitions, and substances or preparations which are supplied with a view to producing a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect;

(b)a substance or preparation which is—

(i)intended for use as food within the meaning of section 1 of the Food Safety Act 1990(6), and

(ii)in a finished state intended for the final user;

(c)a substance or preparation which is under customs control;

(d)subject to Council Regulation EC 2455/92(7) on the export notification and information exchange of dangerous substances a substance or preparation which is intended for export to a country which is not a member State of the Communities;

(e)a pesticide which has been approved under the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(8);

(f)a substance or preparation which is transferred from a factory, warehouse or other place of work and its curtilage to another place of work in the same ownership and in the immediate vicinity;

(g)a substance to which regulation 4(4) of the Notification of New Substances Regulations 1982(9) applies (which relates to certain new substances not yet fully tested) and which is labelled in accordance with the provisions of that regulation; or

(h)substances, preparations and mixtures thereof in the form of wastes which are covered by Council Directives 91/156/EEC(10) and 91/689/EEC(11).

(3) The provisions of these Regulations which relate to any substance dangerous for carriage shall apply to any such substance which is carried except—

(a)where the vehicle in which the substance is being carried is not being used for, or in connection with, work;

(b)where the receptacle in which the substance is being carried is a tank container having a volume of more than 3 cubic metres;

(c)a substance which has been assigned to Class 1 in accordance with the Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations 1983(12);

(d)a substance which is intended for use as food within the meaning of section 1 of the Food Safety Act 1990;

(e)where the substance is carried on, or in connection with, an international transport operation within the meaning of the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF)(13) and the substance is packaged and labelled in accordance with the provisions of that Convention or of Regulations made under it;

(f)where the substance is carried on, or in connection with, an international transport operation within the meaning of the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) signed at Geneva on 30th September 1957 and the carriage complies with the provisions of Annex A or Annex B or both to that Agreement;

(g)where the carriage is an international transport operation which is subject to any special bilateral or multilateral agreement made under the terms of Article 4.3 of the said European Agreement (ADR) to which the United Kingdom is a signatory and conforms with any conditions attached to that agreement;

(h)where the vehicle carrying the substance dangerous for carriage is not for the time being subject to the provisions of the said European Agreement (ADR) by reason only that it is a vehicle belonging to, or under the orders of, the armed forces of a Contracting Party;

(i)where the substance is being carried for or in connection with the carriage of that substance by sea and the substance is packaged and labelled in accordance with the appropriate provisions of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code issued by the International Maritime Organisation;

(j)where the substance is being carried by road for or in connection with the carriage of that substance by air, and the substance is packaged and labelled in accordance with the appropriate provisions of the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air issued by the International Civil Aviation Organisation;

(k)where petroleum-spirit, which is intended for use as a fuel of any internal combustion engine and not wholly or partly for the purposes of sale, is carried in a container which conforms to the requirements of either—

(i)the Petroleum-spirit (Motor Vehicles, &c.) Regulations 1929(14), or

(ii)Regulations 3 to 8 of the Petroleum-Spirit (Plastic Containers) Regulations 1982(15);

(l)where the substance is being carried in a vehicle being used on roads only for delivering goods between private premises and a vehicle in the immediate vicinity, or in passing from one part of such premises to another in the same ownership and in the immediate vicinity; or

(m)in so far as the substance—

(i)is used solely in connection with the operation of the vehicle as a means of transport, and

(ii)is being carried in a tank which forms part of or is permanently attached to the vehicle or is in a battery.

In this paragraph any reference to a specified document shall operate as a reference to that document as revised or re-issued from time to time.

(4) Regulations 8 to 14 shall only apply to substances or preparations dangerous for supply or carriage in packages.

(5) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), regulation 13(1) shall apply to the preparations referred to in that paragraph (unless expressly otherwise provided for in that paragraph) whether or not those preparations are otherwise dangerous for supply within the meaning of regulation 2(1).

(6) These Regulations in so far as they apply to the carriage of substances dangerous for carriage shall also apply to the articles specified in Part 3 of the approved carriage list as they apply to such substances dangerous for carriage.

(7) Where a substance or preparation dangerous for supply has been imported for delivery to its importer at his place of work, the provisions of these Regulations which relate to the labelling of that substance or preparation shall not apply until ten days after it has been delivered to the importer, if during that perod it is not—

(a)supplied to any other person; or

(b)subjected to any form of manipulation, treatment or processing which results in the substance being exposed, or for any purpose (other than labelling in accordance with these Regulations) which results in any receptacle containing the substance or preparation being removed from its outer packaging.

(8) These Regulations shall not apply to Northern Ireland.