{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-substances-hazardous-to-health-regulations-1994/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-substances-hazardous-to-health-regulations-1994/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3246",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-substances-hazardous-to-health-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibitions relating to certain substances",
  "text": "(1) Those substances described in column 1 of Schedule 2 are prohibited to the extent set out in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Schedule.\n(2) The importation into the United Kingdom, other than from another member State, of the following substances and articles is prohibited, namely—\n(a) 2-naphthylamine, benzidine, 4-aminodiphenyl, 4-nitrodiphenyl, their salts and any substance containing any of those compounds in a total concentration equal to or greater than 0.1 per cent. by mass;\n(b) matches made with white phosphorus,\nand any contravention of this paragraph shall be punishable under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 and not as a contravention of a health and safety regulation.\n(3) A person shall not supply during the course of or for use at work any substance or article specified in paragraph (2).\n(4) A person shall not supply during the course of or for use at work, benzene or any substance containing benzene unless its intended use is not prohibited by item 11 of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3246/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:20:00.945543+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."
}