{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-dangerous-goods-by-rail-regulations-1996/schedule-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-dangerous-goods-by-rail-regulations-1996/schedule-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2089",
  "legislation_title": "The Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriage-of-dangerous-goods-by-rail-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/8",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "LIMITS ON NET EXPLOSIVE CONTENT OF EXPLOSIVES PERMITTED TO BE CARRIED IN CONTAINERS AND WAGONS AND SEPARATION DISTANCE",
  "text": "Where explosives within different Divisions are carried in the same container or wagon then, for the purpose of this Schedule, all the explosives, with the exception of those in Division 1.4, shall be deemed to be within the Division amongst them whose Division number comes highest in the following list, (that is Division number 1.1 (highest), 1.5, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.6 (lowest)); except that where explosives with a Division number of 1.2 are carried together with explosives with a Division number of 1.5 they shall all be deemed to be within the Division whose Division number is 1.1.\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nType of explosive (Division number)\nMaximum net explosive content in tonnes in any group of adjacent containers or wagons\nMinimum separation distance in metres between groups of containers or wagons\n1.1\n40\n80\nAny combination of 1.1, 1.3, and 1.5\nAggregate of 40\n80\n1.3 and 1.5 alone or mixed\n120\n40",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2089/schedule/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T03:33:23.144848+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."
}