Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 2571
HEALTH AND SAFETY
The Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) (Amendment) Regulations 2005
Made
14th September 2005
Laid before Parliament
22nd September 2005
Coming into force
31st October 2005
The Secretary of State being the Minister designated for the purpose of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the regulation and control of classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances and preparations, and for measures relating to consumer protection, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the said section 2(2) and by section 15(1), (2), (3)(a) and (4)(a) of, and paragraph 1(1)(b) and (4) of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (“ 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:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 31st October 2005.
(2) In these Regulations, “ the principal Regulations ” means the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002 .
Amendments to the principal Regulations
2. —(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1)—
(a) for the definition of “the approved supply list” substitute—
“ “ the approved supply list ” means the document entitled “Information Approved for the Classification and Labelling of Dangerous Substances and Dangerous Preparations (Eighth Edition)” approved by the Health and Safety Commission on 26 July 2005 ; ” ;
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(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(7) Omit regulations 13 and 18(2).
(8) In Part II of Schedule 3, in Table VIA, in line 1 for “0.%” substitute “ 0.1% ” .
(9) In Part I of Schedule 5—
(a) in paragraph 2(4), for “22(1)” substitute “ 6 ” ;
(b) in paragraph 3(5), for “(2)” substitute “ (3) ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.
Philip Hunt
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Work and Pensions