The Notification of New Substances (Amendment) Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/1914
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Notification of New Substances (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 30th September 1991.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Notification of New Substances Regulations 1982 .

Section 2 Amendment to the principal Regulations

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(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations, for the definition of “new substance” there shall be substituted the following definition–

“new substance” means any substance except a substance which appears in the inventory referred to in Article 13.1 of the Directive;

(3) In regulation 4 of the principal Regulations after paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

(1A) The notification referred to in paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by a certificate in writing from the body which carried out the tests for the purposes of the technical dossier stating that those tests were carried out in conformity with the principles prescribed in regulation 11(1).

(4) At the end of regulation 6 there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

(4) Any report made in pursuance of paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by a certificate in writing from the body that carried out the tests referred to in the report stating that those tests were carried out in conformity with the principles prescribed in regulation 11(1).

(5) In paragraph (1) of regulation 11 of the principal Regulations for “good current laboratory practice” there shall be substituted “good laboratory practice referred to in Article 1 of Council Directive 87/18/ EEC ( OJ No. L15, 17.1.87, p. 29) on the application of the principles of good laboratory practice and the verification of their application for tests on chemical substances.”.

(6) For paragraph (2) of regulation 11 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

(2) A person having control of a laboratory in which tests are carried out for the purposes of these Regulations shall ensure that those tests are carried out in accordance with the said principles of good laboratory practice and at the request of the manufacturer or importer who required the tests to be carried out shall provide him with a certificate in writing to that effect.