{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chemicals-hazard-information-and-packaging-regulations-1993/schedule-7/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chemicals-hazard-information-and-packaging-regulations-1993/schedule-7/paragraph-3.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": "schedule/7/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Derogation for naming the ingredients of certain preparations containing harmful substances",
  "text": "(1) Where a person can demonstrate to the Executive that the disclosure of the chemical identity of a substance required to show the indication of danger Xn (not being a substance which would cause the preparation to be assigned one of the risk phrases referred to in paragraph 2(2)(c) above) on the label will put at risk the confidential nature of his property, he shall be permitted to refer to that substance either by means of a name that identifies the most important functional chemical groups of the substance or by means of an alternative name giving equivalent information.\n(2) In such a case the supplier shall notify the Executive of his intention to so label the preparation.\n(3) Where the Executive receives a notification in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) above, it shall forthwith inform the European Commission thereof.\n(4) Regulation 10 of the Notification of New Substances Regulations 1982 (which relates to confidentiality of information notified) shall apply to information notified under sub-paragraph (2) above as it applies to information notified under those Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1496, amended by S.I. 1984/1244, 1985/1333, 1986/890, 1991/1914."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/669",
      "affecting_title": "The Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1746/schedule/7/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}