# The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances (Amendment) Regulations 2002, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
1 The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982 (“the principal Regulations”) prohibit the handling of certain hazardous substances in a quantity equal to or exceeding the quantity specified in Part I of Schedule 1, unless the Health and Safety Executive (“the Executive”) has been notified.
2 These Regulations amend the principal Regulations in relation to ammonium nitrate and mixtures containing ammonium nitrate—
(a) in regulation 3(1), by substituting 4 weeks for 3 months as the minimum period of notice (regulation 3);
(b) by excepting those substances from regulation 7(1), which provides that the enforcing authority for a site at which they are handled is always the Executive (regulation 4);
(c) by adding regulation 9, containing transitional provision (regulation 5); and
(d) by widening the description of mixtures containing ammonium nitrate specified in Part I of Schedule 1, and, in relation to both ammonium nitrate and the mixtures, by lowering the specified quantity from 500 to 150 tonnes (regulation 6).
3 A copy of the regulatory impact assessment prepared in respect of these Regulations may be obtained from the Economic and Statistical Analysis Unit, Health and Safety Unit, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS. Copies have been placed in the Library of each House of Parliament.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2979/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/notification-of-installations-handling-hazardous-substances-amendment-regulations-2002/note
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