# The Packaging of Explosives for Carriage Regulations 1991, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“The 1983 Regulations” means the Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations 1983;
“approved testing laboratory” means a testing laboratory—
(a) approved by the Secretary of State, or
(b) outside Great Britain, approved by the competent authority;
“carriage” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (2) of this regulation;
“certificate holder” means the person whose name is included in or identifiable from the UN mark;
“competent authority” means a person or organisation in any country which is for the time being a competent authority for the purposes of the testing and certification of packagings and the allocation of a UN mark under the United Nations Recommendations;
“Class 1” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the 1983 Regulations;
“consign” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (3) of this regulation;
“design type” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (4) of this regulation;
“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive;
“explosives” means explosive articles or explosive substances which—
(a) have been assigned on classification in accordance with the 1983 Regula tions to Class 1, or
(b) have not been classified under the 1983 Regulations or under the Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Substances Regula tions 1984;
“explosive article” means an article containing one or more explosive substance;
“explosive substance” means—
(a) a solid or liquid substance, or
(b) a mixture of solid or liquid substances or both,
which is capable by chemical reaction in itself of producing gas at such a temperature and pressure and at such a speed as could cause damage to surroundings or which is designed to produce an effect by heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of these as a result of non-detonative self-sustaining exothermic chemical reactions;
“fireworks” means the explosive articles allocated on classification under the 1983 Regulations any of the UN Numbers 0333 to 0337;
“inner packagings” means the packagings immediately surrounding any explosives except when they are the only packagings;
“military explosive” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the 1983 Regulations;
“net mass” means—
(a) where a package has outer packagings only, the net mass of the contents, and
(b) where the package has inner packagings and outer packagings, the combined mass of the contents and the inner packagings;
“outer packagings” means the packagings immediately surrounding any explosives where it is the only packagings and in any other case the outermost packagings;
“package” means the packagings and their contents prepared for carriage;
“packagings” means any receptacle and any closure or fastening and any components, materials or wrappings which have the purpose of enabling the packagings to perform their containment function, but does not include—
(a) any envelope, case or contrivance forming part of an article, or
(b) any type of cradle, crate, freight container, aircraft container, container with integral pallet, aircraft pallet or vehicle;
“small arms ammunition” means the explosive articles allocated on classification under the 1983 Regulations the UN Numbers 0012, 0014 or 0055 and which are intended exclusively for use in small arms;
“UN mark” means a mark allocated by the competent authority being a mark specified in the United Nations Recommendations to indicate that the packagings which bear it:—
(a) correspond with a design type which has been tested successfully in accordance with, and
(b) comply with the provisions relating to manufacture required by,
the United Nations Recommendations.
“UN Number” means United Nations Serial Number, that is to say, one of the four digit numbers devised by the United Nations and allocated by the Health and Safety Executive or the Secretary of State to an explosive article or explosive substance as a means of identification;
“unit load” means the unit formed when packages or unpackaged articles are assembled on or in a device which enables them to be mechanically handled as one unit, but which is not any type of freight container, aircraft container, container with integral pallet, aircraft pallet, or vehicle;
“unit load container” means a unit load containing military explosives the net mass of which, treating the unit load container as a single package, is greater than 400 kg which is designed to simplify handling of the explosives in it and to make them available for use quickly;
“the United Nations Recommendations” means the United Nations Recommenda tions on the Transport of Dangerous Goods based on those originally prepared by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods considered by the Economic and Social Council at its twenty-third session (Resolution 645 G (XXIII) of 26th April 1957) being either—
(i) the seventh revised edition, or
(ii) a later edition (which shall include any revision or partial substitution and any such edition, revision or substitution as it has effect subject to any reservation made by or on behalf of the United Kingdom) approved from time to time by the Secretary of State which shall be in substitution for and not an alternative to the seventh revised edition.
(2) When explosives are carried in or on a vehicle or vessel (which shall include a freight container attached to a vehicle or vessel), they shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be deemed to be carried from the time they are placed in or on the vehicle or vessel for the purposes of carriage until they are removed from the vehicle or vessel.
(3) For the purpose of these Regulations, a person shall be taken to consign explosives for carriage whether he does so as principal or as agent for another.
(4) For the purposes of these Regulations, packagings are of the same design type if they conform in every respect, including design, size, material, thickness and manner of construction, with the specification of packagings which have satisfactorily completed tests and have been allocated a UN mark or if they differ only in having a different surface treatment.
(5) For the purposes of these Regulations, a unit load container shall be treated as a single package but any other unit load shall not be so treated and the device on or in which packages or unpackaged articles are assembled in a unit load other than a unit load container shall not be treated as packagings.
(6) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or schedule is a reference to the regulation or schedule in these Regulations so numbered.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2097/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-of-explosives-for-carriage-regulations-1991/regulation-2
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