# The Potteries etc. (Modifications) Regulations 1990, Regulation 2: Modifications to the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980


(1) After regulation 3 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980, 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,”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/305/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/potteries-etc-modifications-regulations-1990/regulation-2
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