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These Regulations may be cited as the Potteries etc. (Modifications) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 26th March 1990.
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(1) After regulation 3 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980, there shall be inserted the following regulation—“
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(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,”.
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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
THE SCHEDULE
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Column 1 Column 2
Instruments Extent of revocation
The Pottery (Health) Special Regulations 1947 (S.R. & O. 1947/2161), amended by S.I. 1988/1657. The whole Regulations.
The Pottery (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1950 (S.I. 1950/65), amended by the Employment Act 1989 (c. 38); S.I. 1973/36, 1980/1248, 1982/877, 1988/1657 and 1989/2311. In regulation 2(2) the definitions–
(a) “Approved respirator”;
(b) “Efficient exhaust draught”;
(c) “Galena”;
(d) “Moist method”;
(e) “Scheduled process”;
(f) “Thimble picking”.Regulations 7 to 14.Regulations 17 to 32.Schedule 2.
The Abstract of Special Regulations (Pottery – Health and Welfare) Order 1973 (S.I. 1973/37), amended by the Employment Act 1989 (c. 38), S.I. 1988/1657 and 1989/2311. Schedule 1 so far as it reproduces the following regulations of the Pottery (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1950 –In regulation 2(2) the definitions–
 “Approved respirator”;
 “Efficient exhaust draught”;
 “Moist method”.Regulations 7 to 11.Regulations 13 and 14.Regulations 17 to 20.Regulations 28 to 32.Schedule 2.Schedule 2 so far as it reproduces the following regulations of the 1950 Regulations–In regulation 2(2) the definitions–
 “Approved respirator”;
 “Efficient exhaust draught”;
 “Moist method”;
 “Scheduled process”;
 “Thimble picking”.Regulations 7 to 11.Regulations 13 and 14.Regulations 17 to 22.Regulations 28 to 32.Schedule 2.