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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-resistant-packaging-and-tactile-danger-warnings-safety-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2006",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Resistant Packaging and Tactile Danger Warnings (Safety) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-resistant-packaging-and-tactile-danger-warnings-safety-regulations-1992",
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  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“aerosol” means an article which consists of a non-reusable container containing a gas compressed, liquified or dissolved under pressure, with or without liquid, paste or powder, and fitted with a release device allowing the contents to be ejected as solid or liquid particles in suspension in a gas, as a foam, paste or powder, or in a liquid state;\n“approved test house” means a laboratory which conforms with British Standard BS 7501;\n“BS 7501” means British Standard 7501: 1989 published by the British Standards Institution and which came into effect on 31st October 1989;\n“BS 2782” means the British Standard Specification for determination of the viscosity of polymers in the liquid, emulsified or dispersed state using a rotational viscometer working at defined shear rate, BS 2782: 1978 (1991) published by the British Standards Institution and which came into effect on 31st October 1978;\n“BS 7280” means the British Standard Specification for requirements for tactile danger warnings for packaging BS 7280: 1990 published by the British Standards Institution and which came into effect on 28th February 1990;\n“ISO 8317” means the International Standard child-resistant packaging-requirements and testing procedures for reclosable packages published by the International Standards Organisation and which came into effect on 20th August 1989;\n“listed product” means anything specified in Schedule 1;\n“reclosable packaging” means any packaging which, after it has been initially opened, is capable of being reclosed with a similar degree of security and capable of being used a sufficient number of times to dispense the total contents without loss of security;\n“regulated product” means anything specified in Schedule 2;\n“supply” includes offering to supply, agreeing to supply, exposing for supply and possessing for supply, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) References in these Regulations to Schedules 1, 2 and 3 are references to Schedules 1, 2 and 3 to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "ISBN 0 580 17939 7."
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      "text": "UDC 621 798-78-053.4."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2006/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:17:17.507122+00:00"
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  "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."
}