# The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1990, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1985. The principal changes are:
(1) The definition of “consignment” is amended to reflect a change to Annex 18 to the Chicago Convention (regulation 2(1)).
(2) The definition of “Technical Instructions” now refers to the 1991—1992 English Language Edition, approved and published by decision of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (regulation 2(2)).
(3) There is excluded from the requirement to comply with the Technical Instructions dangerous goods for use in flight for the good Order of the flight (such as Cleaning Materials) to provide medical aid to a person or to provide veterinary aid or a humane killer for an animal (regulation 2(3)).
(4) The training requirements contained in the Technical Instructions apply to shippers of those types of dangerous goods which are otherwise excluded from the requirements of the Technical Instructions (regulation 2(4)).
(5) In certain circumstances, a document other than a dangerous goods transport document may be required to provide the necessary notification to the aircraft operator (regulation 2(5), (6) and (13)).
(6) Certain dangerous goods may be carried in limited quantities provided they comply with requirements in the Technical Instructions which are based on Chapter 15 of the UN recommendations for the transport of dangerous goods (regulation 2(7)).
(7) An acceptance check may be carried out using a computerised system which provides for a full and accurate check and records the results in a form which is capable of being reproduced in a legible form (regulation 2(8), (9), (10) and (14).
(8) The maximum permissible radiation level resulting from the fixed contamination to any accessible surface and non-fixed contamination are the values specified in the Technical Instructions (regulation 2(11)).
(9) There must be provided with each passenger ticket information notifying passengers of the categories of dangerous goods which may not be taken on board an aircraft (regulation 2(12)).
(10) Aircraft flying in order to drop articles for the purpose of pollution control are largely excluded from the requirements of the Regulations (regulation 2 (15) and (16)).
The 1991/1992 English Language Edition of the Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air may be purchased from—
Freight Merchandising Services
c/o Vidap Freight Services Limited
Green Lane
Hounslow
Middlesex
TW4 6DD
or
IAL (International Aeradio Plc)
Aeradio House
Hayes Road
Southall
Middlesex
UB2 5NJ
or
CAA Printing and Publication Services
Greville House
37 Gratton Road
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL50 2BN

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2531/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-dangerous-goods-third-amendment-regulations-1990/note
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