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Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 305
The Potteries etc. (Modifications) Regulations 1990
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1990 No. 305
HEALTH AND SAFETY
The Potteries etc. (Modifications) Regulations 1990
| Laid before Parliament | 28th February 1990 |
| Coming into force | 26th March 1990 |
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 15(1), (2), (3)(a) and (4)(a) of, and paragraph 1(1)(b) of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974[1] ("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 and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Potteries etc. (Modifications) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 26th March 1990. Modifications to the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980
2. (1) After regulation 3 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980[2], there shall be inserted the following regulation—
"Prohibition of certain glazes in pottery manufacture
3A.—(1) The use of any glaze other than a leadless glaze or a low solubility glaze in the manufacture of pottery is prohibited.
(2) In this regulation—
"glaze" does not include engobe or slip;
"leadless glaze" means a glaze which does not contain more than one per cent of its dry weight of a lead compound calculated as lead monoxide;
"low solubility glaze" means a glaze which does not yield to dilute hydrochloric acid more than 5 per cent of its dry weight of a soluble lead compound when determined in accordance with a method approved in writing for the time being by the Health and Safety Commission."
(3) In Regulation 7 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980, after the words "of a type approved" there shall be inserted the words "or conforming to a standard approved, in either case,".
Revocations
3. The instruments specified in column 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be revoked to the extent set out in the entry opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule.
Signed by order of the Secretary of State
Patrick Nicholls
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Employment
16th February 1990
Notes:[1] 1974 c. 37; sections 15 and 50 were amended by the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Schedule 15, paragraphs 6 and 16 respectively.
[2] S.I. 1980/1248.
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