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The Potteries etc. (Modifications) Regulations 1990

S.I. 1990/305 · Made 16 February 1990

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HEALTH AND SAFETY

Made 16th February 1990

Laid before Parliament 28th February 1990

Coming into force 26th March 1990

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 15(1), (2), (3)(a) and (4)(a) of, and paragraph 1(1)(b) of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974f1 (“the 1974 Act”) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and for the purpose of giving effect without modifications to proposals submitted to him by the Health and Safety Commission under section 11(2)(d) of the 1974 Act after the carrying out by the said Commission of consultations in accordance with section 50(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1974 c. 37; sections 15 and 50 were amended by the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Schedule 15, paragraphs 6 and 16 respectively.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Modifications to the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980
  3. 3Revocations
  4. Signature
  5. Schedule THEREVOCATIONS
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Potteries etc. (Modifications) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 26th March 1990.

2Modifications to the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980

(1)

After regulation 3 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980f1, there shall be inserted the following regulation—

“Prohibition of certain glazes in pottery manufacture

3A
(1)

The use of any glaze other than a leadless glaze or a low solubility glaze in the manufacture of pottery is prohibited.

(2)

In this regulation—

  • “glaze” does not include engobe or slip;

  • “leadless glaze” means a glaze which does not contain more than one per cent of its dry weight of a lead compound calculated as lead monoxide;

  • “low solubility glaze” means a glaze which does not yield to dilute hydrochloric acid more than 5 per cent of its dry weight of a soluble lead compound when determined in accordance with a method approved in writing for the time being by the Health and Safety Commission.”

(3)

In Regulation 7 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980, after the words “of a type approved” there shall be inserted the words “or conforming to a standard approved, in either case,”.

3Revocations

The instruments specified in column 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be revoked to the extent set out in the entry opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule.

Signature

Signed by order of the Secretary of State

Patrick Nicholls

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Employment

16th February 1990

Schedule THEREVOCATIONS

Column 1Column 2
InstrumentsExtent of revocation
The Pottery (Health) Special Regulations 1947 (S.R. & O. 1947/2161), amended by S.I. 1988/1657.The whole Regulations.
The Pottery (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1950 (S.I. 1950/65), amended by the Employment Act 1989 (c. 38); S.I. 1973/36, 1980/1248, 1982/877, 1988/1657 and 1989/2311.

In regulation 2(2) the definitions–

  1. (a)

    “Approved respirator”;

  2. (b)

    “Efficient exhaust draught”;

  3. (c)

    “Galena”;

  4. (d)

    “Moist method”;

  5. (e)

    “Scheduled process”;

  6. (f)

    “Thimble picking”.

Regulations 7 to 14.

Regulations 17 to 32.

Schedule 2.

The Abstract of Special Regulations (Pottery – Health and Welfare) Order 1973 (S.I. 1973/37), amended by the Employment Act 1989 (c. 38), S.I. 1988/1657 and 1989/2311.

Schedule 1 so far as it reproduces the following regulations of the Pottery (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1950 –

In regulation 2(2) the definitions–

  • “Approved respirator”;

  • “Efficient exhaust draught”;

  • “Moist method”.

Regulations 7 to 11.

Regulations 13 and 14.

Regulations 17 to 20.

Regulations 28 to 32.

Schedule 2.

Schedule 2 so far as it reproduces the following regulations of the 1950 Regulations–

In regulation 2(2) the definitions–

  • “Approved respirator”;

  • “Efficient exhaust draught”;

  • “Moist method”;

  • “Scheduled process”;

  • “Thimble picking”.

Regulations 7 to 11.

Regulations 13 and 14.

Regulations 17 to 22.

Regulations 28 to 32.

Schedule 2.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1

These Regulations revoke the Pottery (Health) Special Regulations 1947 of which regulation 4 (relating to the prohibition of lead glazes) is the only substantive provision now in force and modify the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980 to provide equivalent prohibitions.

2

The Regulations also revoke those of the provisions of the Pottery (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1950 which have been superseded by the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980 and the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1657).

3

Regulation 7 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980 has been modified so as to permit respiratory protective equipment to be used which conforms to a standard for the time being approved by the Health and Safety Executive.