The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982

UK Statutory Instrument 1982 No. 1357 — creates 1 criminal offence.

Made

22 September 1982

In force from

1 January 1983

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries

Made under

Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations prohibit any person from undertaking any activity which entails there being a notifiable quantity or more of a hazardous substance on any site unless that person has notified the Health and Safety Executive of the particulars specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to the Regulations at least 3 months before commencing that activity. With certain specified exceptions, similar notification of the particulars specified in Part II of Schedule 2 is required for any pipe–line which contains a notifiable quantity or more of a hazardous substance. Notification is also required of any changes in an activity previously notified which affects the particulars previously notified and where the quantity of the hazardous substance is increased to 3 or more times that originally notified the activity is required to be re–notified as if it were a new activity. The Regulations provide that the enforcing authority for the relevant statutory provisions in relation to any site on which an activity which is required to be notified is carried on shall be the Health and Safety Executive and that after 1st February 1985 the Health and Safety Executive shall be the authority empowered to grant and enforce petroleum–spirit licences for such sites. The Regulations contain a transitional provision which allows activities which are in existence at the time the Regulations come into operation or which are commenced within 6 months of that date to be carried on provided that they are duly notified within three months of the coming into operation of the Regulations.

Offences created by this instrument

• Contravention of The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982 the instrument as a whole · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

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• Dangerous Substances Commons · Commons Chamber · 13 May 1987 · Mr. Doug Hoyle (Warrington, North)

  I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to extend the application of industrial hazard regulations to include all sites containing potentially dangerous substances; and for connected purposes. First, I should declare an interest as president of the Association of Scientific, Technological and Managerial Staffs. This will be the last ten-minute Bill that will be presented before the Dissolution of Parliament. Nevertheless, it is an important measure. My Bill would extend the role of the Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1984. At the moment those…

• Associated British Ports (No 2) Bill (By Order) Commons · Commons Chamber · 23 June 1988 · Mr. Eadie

  I want to place on record the objections raised by Calor Gas. I referred in a previous speech to the liquidation of capital already invested. I related my remarks mainly to the mining, railway and power plant manufacturing industries. According to my figures, the cavern cost £25 million to build. I find it difficult to think in terms of writing off that amount of capital. The main concern of Calor is that it stores vast quantities of liquid petroleum gas and, as a result, the site has to be notified to the Health and Safety Executive in accordance with the provisions of the Notification of…

• Warehouse Fires Commons · Commons Chamber · 28 July 1988 · Mr. Terry Fields (Liverpool, Broadgreen)

  I apologise in advance to the Minister if I do not allow him the customary amount of time to reply. My speech is so extensive that I could have done with an hour and a half. I hope that the Minister will understand that I do not expect a detailed reply. I shall give him a document and ask him or his Department to write to me about it. The specific problems facing the fire service that I want to deal with concern warehousing. Uncharacteristically, perhaps, the only political statement I wish to make is that Britain used to be the workshop of the world, but we are fast becoming the warehouse…

• Industrial Chemical Premises Commons · Commons Chamber · 1 November 1988 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Patrick Nicholls)

  I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Poole (Mr. Ward) on bringing this important issue before the House—despite the eccentric hour at which he has managed to do it. The fire at the British Drug House plant in Poole on 21 June was a serious incident and I fully appreciate the concerns that my hon. Friend has expressed so eloquently. He was extremely prompt about contacting my office and making clear his worries; his constituents need be in no doubt about that, or about the steps that he has taken to bring the matter to my attention, to ensure that such an incident never occurs again.…

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