The Packaging of Explosives for Carriage Regulations 1991

means a testing laboratory— (a) approved by the Secretary of State, or (b) outside Great Britain, approved by the competent authority;

means the person whose name is included in or identifiable from the UN mark;

has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the 1983 Regulations;

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;

means an article containing one or more 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;

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;

means the explosive articles allocated on classification under the 1983 Regulations any of the UN Numbers 0333 to 0337;

means the packagings immediately surrounding any explosives except when they are the only packagings;

has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the 1983 Regulations;

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;

means the packagings immediately surrounding any explosives where it is the only packagings and in any other case the outermost packagings;

means the packagings and their contents prepared for carriage;

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;

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;

means the Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations 1983;

means the Health and Safety Executive;

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— (a) 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.

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;

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;