Regulation 6 Amendment of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998

(1)

The Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2(1)—

(a)

after the definition of “bus” insert—

““the CLP Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC and amending Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006, of which Articles 6(5), 11(3), 12, 14, 18(3)(b), 23, 25 to 29, 35(2) second and third sub-paragraphs and Annexes I to VII are to be read as amended from time to time;”; and

(b)

after the definition of “guided transport” insert—

““hazardous substance or mixture” means a substance or mixture which meets the criteria for classification within any health hazard or physical hazard class laid down in the CLP Regulation;”

(3)

In Schedule 1, after paragraph 1(b) insert—

“(ba)
where the main activity is the sale or storage for wholesale distribution of any hazardous substance or mixture;”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1998/494, amended by S.I. 2009/716; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.