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Regulation 11 The Approved Explosives Vehicle Requirements

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(1)

The Health and Safety Commission shall approve and publish for the purposes of these Regulations a document entitled “Approved Requirements for the Construction of Vehicles Intended for the Carriage of Explosives by Road” which shall contain—

(a)

the requirements for the construction of different types of vehicles for the carriage of explosives for the purposes of regulations 10, 12 and 13 and Schedules 2 and 3; and

(b)

explanatory notes and other material requisite for the use of the document.

(2)

The Health and Safety Commission may approve a revision of the approved document referred to in paragraph (1) and, when it does so, the Commission shall within 3 months of the date of that approval publish, in such manner as it considers appropriate, a notice specifying the revision, the date on which it was approved and the date on which it takes effect, which last-mentioned date shall not be less than 6 months after the date of the approval of the revision.

(3)

In these Regulations “the Approved Explosives Vehicle Requirements” means the document referred to in paragraph (1) or where there has been a revision of that document under paragraph (2), the document as so revised.