The Child Resistant Packaging (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/1736
• Sections: 7

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Child Resistant Packaging (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 6th November 1990.

Section 2

The Child Resistant Packaging (Safety) Regulations 1986 shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in the following Regulations.

Section 3

In regulation 2(1) the definition of BS 6652 shall be deleted.

Section 4

In regulation 3(1) for the word and number “and (4)” there shall be substituted the following: “, (4) and (5)”.

Section 5

In regulation 3(1) for “BS 6652” there shall be substituted the following:—

“the British Standard Specification for packagings resistant to opening by children BS 6652: 1989 published by the British Standards Institution on 30th June 1989 subject to any further amendments made thereto and approved by the Secretary of State.”

Section 6

In regulation 3(3) the following sub-paragraph shall be substituted for sub-paragraph (b):—

(b) which can only be opened (whether for the first time or subsequently) with the use of a tool.

Section 7

After regulation 3(4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

(5) Paragraph (1) does not apply in any case where the regulated product is supplied in any packaging which is identical in all material respects to packaging approved by the British Standards Institution as complying with the requirements of the British Standard Specification for packagings resistant to opening by children BS 6652: 1985 published by the British Standards Institution on 30 September 1985 provided that the certificate denoting such approval was issued before the 6 November 1990 and remains in force.