{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chemicals-hazard-information-and-packaging-regulations-1993/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chemicals-hazard-information-and-packaging-regulations-1993/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1746",
  "legislation_title": "The Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chemicals-hazard-information-and-packaging-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Classification of substances (including preparations) dangerous for carriage",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not consign (whether as principal or agent for another) a substance which is dangerous for carriage, unless it has been classified in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.\n(2) In the case of a substance which is specified in Part 1 of the approved carriage list as dangerous for carriage, the classification shall be that specified in the entry for that substance in column 3 of that Part.\n(3) In the case of a substance which, while not listed in Part 1 of the approved carriage list as dangerous for carriage, is in one of the groups of substances listed in Part 2 the classification shall be that specified in the entry for that group in column 3 of that Part.\n(4) In the case of an article specified in Part 3 of the approved carriage list, to which these Regulations are applied by regulation 3(6), the classification shall be that specified in the entry for that article in column 3 of that Part.\n(5) In any other case, the classification of the substance shall be that specified in column 2of Part I of Schedule 3 corresponding to the most hazardous of the characteristic properties ofthe substance specified opposite thereto in column 1 of that Part.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/669",
      "affecting_title": "The Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1746/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:53:58.417577+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."
}