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No Specific Offences for Dangerous Chemicals T HE total number of

5th February 1965
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prosecutions under the Construction and Use Regulations was not separately available, said Mr. George Thomas, Under Secretary at the Home Office, in the Commons.

Cdr. Anthony Courtney (Tory, Harrow East) had asked how many offences had been reported concerning the transport of dangerous chemicals, and was told that the Regulations did not create any offences in respect of transport of dangerous chemicals as such. Nor did the available statistics show to what extent those prosecuted under the Regulations were, in fact, conveying dangerous chemicals, added Mr. Thomas,

During 1963 there was one prosecution tinder the Explosives Act, 1875, in this field; there were also three prosecutions that year under the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act, 1928. and four during 1964.

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