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Specification of Safety Glass Notice

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[Subsidiary]

SPECIFICATION OF SAFETY GLASS NOTICE

(Road Traffic (Construction and Maintenance of Vehicles) Regulations, regulation 28)

OF

[15 January 1988]

NIVER

HONG

L.N. 6/88-

Citation

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LIBRARY

LAW

KONG

1. This notice may be cited as the Specification of Safety Glass Notice.

Interpretation

2. In this notice---

"hard safety plastic" means inflexible safety plastic of not less than 6 mm in

thickness;

"safety plastic" means flexible or hard safety glazing material predominantly synthetic organic in character, including laminated products and single sheets, so constructed, treated or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate glass, the likeli- hood of injury to persons by objects from exterior sources or by the safety glazing material when it may be cracked or broken;

"wired safety glass” means a single sheet of glass with a layer of meshed wire completely imbedded in the glass but not necessarily in the centre of the sheet.

Approval of glass or transparent materials

3.

The types of glass and transparent material specified in paragraph 4 are approved for the purposes of regulation 28(1)(a).

Specification of safety glass

4. (1)

(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) the glass or transparent material used in all windscreens, windows and partitions of a motor vehicle shall be safety glass or safety glazing that--

(a) complies with British Standard Specification BS 857 with amendments

up to AMD 3548 dated 15 February 1981;

(b) complies with British Standard Specification BS 5282;

(c) complies with British Standard Specification BS AU 178;

(d) complies with Economic Commission of Europe Regulation ECE 43;

or

(e) is hard safety plastic.