The International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Made: 6th July 1989

Laid before Parliament: 17th July 1989

Coming into force: 7th August 1989

The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 2(1) and (5), 3, 4(1) and (6) and 20 of the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Act 1976[^f00001], and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations shall come into force on 7th August 1989 and may be cited as the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1989.

2

For the definition of “ATP” in regulation 2 (Interpretation and transitional provision) of the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Regulations 1985[^f00002] there shall be substituted the following definition–

• “ATP” means the Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment used for such Carriage (ATP) concluded at Geneva on 1st September 1970 as amended pursuant to article 18 of the agreement[^f00003] and as further amended pursuant to that article by amendments to Annex 1, appendices 1 and 2 which came into operation on 6th July 1989[^f00004]

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Peter Bottomley — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of Transport — 6th July 1989

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the definition of the Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and the Special Equipment Used for such Carriage (ATP) of 1st September 1970 in the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Regulations 1985 to take account of further amendments to the agreement.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1976 c. 58; the Act is amended by section 9 of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to, the International Transport Conventions Act 1983 (c. 14).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1985/1071.

[^f00003]: Cmd 250.

[^f00004]: Cmd 719.