The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances (Amendment) Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/2979
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 30th December 2002.

Section 2 Amendment of the Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982

The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982 (“the principal Regulations”) shall be amended in accordance with the following regulations.

Section 3 Amendment of the Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982

Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations shall be amended by inserting, after the word “months”, the words “or, in the case of a hazardous substance consisting of ammonium nitrate or a mixture containing ammonium nitrate, at least 4 weeks”.

Section 4 Amendment of the Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982

Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations shall be amended by inserting after paragraph (1) the following paragraph—

(1A) Paragraph (1) shall not apply where ammonium nitrate or a mixture containing ammonium nitrate is the hazardous substance by reason of which the activity is notifiable

Section 5 Amendment of the Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982

After regulation 8 of the principal Regulations the following regulation shall be added—

Transitional provision for ammonium nitrate

(9) Where—

(a) on 30th December 2002 a person—

(i) is undertaking an activity in which there is or is liable to be at any one time a notifiable quantity or more of a hazardous substance consisting of ammonium nitrate or a mixture containing ammonium nitrate; and

(ii) was not immediately before that date required by regulation 3(1) to notify particulars to the Executive in relation to a notifiable quantity of ammonium nitrate or a mixture containing ammonium nitrate; or

(b) a person commences such activity within 4 weeks after that date,

it shall be sufficient compliance with regulation 3(1) if he notifies to the Executive the particulars specified in Schedule 2 within 4 weeks after that date.

Section 6 Amendment of the Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982

In Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations—

(a) for the entry in column 1 relating to ammonium nitrate and mixtures of ammonium nitrate there shall be substituted the following entry—

Ammonium nitrate and mixtures containing ammonium nitrate where the nitrogen content exceeds 15.75% of the mixture by weight

(b) the corresponding entry shall be amended by substituting for the words “500” the words “150”.