SPECIFICATION OF SAFETY GLASS NOTICE

SPECIFICATION OF SAFETY GLASS NOTICE

SPECIFICATION OF SAFETY GLASS NOTICE

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


[15 January 1988]

L.N. 6188 -

Citation

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

Interpretation

1. 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) 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 3 548 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.





(2) The glass or transparent material used in the rear cabin window of
a motor vehicle used to carry dangerous goods within the meaning of the
Dangerous Goods Ordinance (Cap. 295) shall be wired safety glass.

(3) The glass or transparent material used in the rear wind ' ow in any
removable canopy to the driver or passenger accommodation of a motor vehicle
may be safety plastic.

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