Whereas under Article 54(1) of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978() (“the Order of 1978”) it appears to the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Economic Development, the Department of the Environment and the Department of Health and Social Services (“the Department concerned”)() that the repeals and modifications of the local Acts, Regulations and bye-laws referred to in regulation 37(2) and (3) and Part II of Schedule 7 are expedient in connection with the other provisions of these Regulations.
Now, therefore, the Department concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 17(1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6), 54(1) and 55(2) of, and paragraphs l(1) to (4), 2, 3, 5,6, 8, 10, 11, 12(2), 13, 14(1), 15, 17(a), 19, 20(a) to (c) and 21 of Schedule 3 to, the Order of 1978 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with Articles 46(1) and 54(5) of that Order with the Health and Safety Agency for Northern Ireland and such other bodies as appeared to it to be appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations:—