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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-tunnel-safety-amendment-regulations-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/64",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Tunnel Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-tunnel-safety-amendment-regulations-2009",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Road Tunnel Safety Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”) to correct a number of errors.\nRegulation 5(2)(c) of the 2007 Regulations, which imposes a duty to ensure operational and organisational schemes are in place, has been omitted. The obligation is retained but is expressed in greater detail in regulation 5(3) of the 2007 Regulations (regulation 3).\nRegulation 9(3)(b) of the 2007 Regulations has been amended to provide that an incident report must be sent to the administrative authority and the safety officer in addition to the emergency services (regulation 4).\nRegulation 12(3) of the 2007 Regulations is omitted, for an administrative authority to undertake the role of inspection entity (regulation 5).\nRegulation 13 of the 2007 Regulations has been amended to ensure consistency in the use of the words “examination” and “inspection” (regulation 6).\nRegulation 15(7) of the 2007 Regulations has been amended to require administrative authorities to submit their first report on compliance with the Regulations to the Secretary of State by 1st October 2010 (regulation 7).\nRegulation 20 of the 2007 Regulations applies where the same person acts as more than one type of authority specified in paragraph (1). Paragraph (2) has been amended to require a complete set of records to be maintained in relation to each role (regulation 8).\nParagraph 2.3.4 of the Schedule to the 2007 Regulations is amended to correct the list of diagrams appearing in the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002 which are referred to in the Schedule (regulation 9).\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the cost of business.\nA copy of the Explanatory Memorandum is available from the Department for Transport, RLTSF3, Zone 3/19, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR and on the OPSI website.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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