The Potteries etc. (Modifications) Regulations 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/305
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Potteries etc. (Modifications) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 26th March 1990.

Section 2 Modifications to the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980

(1) After regulation 3 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980 , there shall be inserted the following regulation—

Prohibition of certain glazes in pottery manufacture

(3A)

(1) The use of any glaze other than a leadless glaze or a low solubility glaze in the manufacture of pottery is prohibited.

(2) In this regulation—

“glaze” does not include engobe or slip;

“leadless glaze” means a glaze which does not contain more than one per cent of its dry weight of a lead compound calculated as lead monoxide;

“low solubility glaze” means a glaze which does not yield to dilute hydrochloric acid more than 5 per cent of its dry weight of a soluble lead compound when determined in accordance with a method approved in writing for the time being by the Health and Safety Commission.

(3) In Regulation 7 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980, after the words “of a type approved” there shall be inserted the words “or conforming to a standard approved, in either case,”.

Section 3 Revocations

The instruments specified in column 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be revoked to the extent set out in the entry opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule.