SECTION 2 - "Means of Containment"

"means of containment" means a container or packaging, or any part of a means of transport that is or may be used to contain goods;

BEHIND THE WORDS

In the 1980 Act there were definitions for container and packaging. These have been removed frorn the TDGA, 1992 as no distinction is needed to be made between the two within the Act. The current definition includes all means used to contain goods and includes those parts of a means of transport which serve this function.

There is a distinction between that part of a means of transport used to contain goods (e.g., the tank forming part of a tank truck) and the means of transport (e.g., truck) itself. This distinction is made as the Act and Regulations are intended to deal extensively with certain means of containment (e.g., prescribe design and performance standards for tanks mounted on a truck chassis or rail car frame) and to a much lesser extent with respect to means of transport (e.g., there are safety marks which must in certain circumstances be affixed to means of transport to indicate danger due to what is being transported).

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