Control of Major Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances

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installation in the establishment, the one whose construction or operation, as the case may be, is first begun. (5) Where after the commencement date of these Regulations an establishment becomes subject to the provisions of any of the Regulations by virtue of any change in the quantity, nature or physical form of the dangerous substances present there any reference in these Regulations to the beginning of operation shall be a reference to the time the establishment first becomes so subject. (6) A word or expression that is used in these Regulations and is also used in the Directive has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Directive. (7) In these Regulations - (a) a reference to a Regulation or a Schedule is to a Regulation of or a Schedule to these Regulations unless it is indicated that a reference to some other enactment is intended, and (b) a reference to a paragraph or subparagraph is to the paragraph or subparagraph of the provision in which the reference occurs, unless it is indicated that reference to some other provision is intended. (8) In these Regulations a reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or adapted by any subsequent enactment. Application. 4. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations shall apply to an establishment where a dangerous substance listed in column 1 of Parts 1 or 2 of Annex I to the Directive (which is set out in Schedule 1) is present in a quantity equal to or exceeding the quantity listed in the entry for that substance in column 2 of those Parts, except that Regulations 12 to 18 shall apply to an establishment where such a 12
dangerous substance is present in a quantity equal to or exceeding the quantity listed in the entry for that substance in column 3 of those parts. (2) These Regulations shall not apply to— (a) any property occupied by the Defence Forces and any land or premises referred to in section 268(1) of the Defence Act 1954 (No. 7 of 1954); (b) hazards created by ionising radiation; (c) the occurrence outside an establishment of— (i) the transport of dangerous substances by road, rail, internal waterways, sea or air; (ii) intermediate temporary storage associated with a subparagraph (i) activity; (iii) the loading or unloading of dangerous substances at docks, wharves or marshalling yards; (iv) the transport to and from another means of transport at docks, wharves or marshalling yards; (v) the transport of dangerous substances in pipelines and pumping stations; (d) the exploitation (exploration, extraction and processing) of minerals in mines, quarries or by means of boreholes, with the exception of chemical and thermal processing operations and storage related to those operations which involve dangerous substances; 13
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EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not
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The Central Competent Authority may
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