{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-dangerous-goods-regulations-1994/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-dangerous-goods-regulations-1994/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3187",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-dangerous-goods-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“consignment” means one or more packages of dangerous goods accepted by an operator from one shipper at one time and at one address receipted for in one lot and moving to one consignee at one destination address;\n“dangerous goods” means any article or substance which is classified in Part 2 of the Technical Instructions;\n“dangerous goods transport document” means a document, not being an air waybill, which is required by regulation 5 to accompany a consignment of dangerous goods;\n“package” means the packaging and the articles and substances contained therein including one or more packages which have been consolidated by one shipper into one container or enclosure for convenience in handling;\n“packing” means the art and operation whereby articles and substances are wrapped up, enclosed in containers or otherwise secured, and “packed” shall be construed accordingly;\n“Technical Instructions” means the 1995-1996 English language edition of the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air approved and published by decision of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization;\n“unit load device” means any type of freight container including any container designed for loading on an aircraft.\n(2) (a) Expressions used in these Regulations shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same respective meanings as in the Air Navigation Order 1989.\n(b) Save where the context otherwise requires any reference to:\n(i) a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations so numbered;\n(ii) a numbered paragraph, or numbered or lettered sub-paragraph is a reference to the paragraph or sub-paragraph so numbered or lettered in the regulation or paragraph, as the case may be, in which that reference appears.\n(3) For the avoidance of doubt, any instructions or limitations contained in the Technical Instructions for the carriage of dangerous goods on passenger or cargo aircraft, as therein defined, shall for the purpose of these Regulations be interpreted as applying also to the carriage of such goods beneath passenger or cargo aircraft respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/3100",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2666",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Second Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2536",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/918",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3187/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:20:36.580120+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}