Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Restrictions on the application of regulations 3, 4 and 5

10.—(1) The requirements of regulation 3 relating to the death or injury of a person as a result of an accident shall not apply to an accident causing death or injury to a person arising out of the conduct of any operation on, or any examination or other medical treatment of, that person which is administered by, or conducted under the supervision of, a registered medical practitioner or a registered dentist.

(2) The requirements of regulations 3 and 4 relating to the death or injury of a person as a result of an accident, shall apply to an accident arising out of or in connection with the movement of a vehicle on a road only if that person—

(a) was killed or suffered an injury as a result of exposure to a substance being conveyed by the vehicle;

(b) was either himself engaged in, or was killed or suffered an injury as a result of the activities of another person who was at the time of the accident engaged in, work connected with the loading or unloading of any article or substance onto or off the vehicle; or

(c) was either himself engaged in, or was killed or suffered an injury as a result of the activities of another person who was at the time of the accident engaged in, work on or alongside a road, being work concerned with the construction, demolition, alteration, repair or maintenance of—

(i) the road or the markings or equipment thereon;

(ii) the verges, fences, hedges or other boundaries of the road;

(iii) pipes or cables on, under, over or adjacent to the road; or

(iv) buildings or structures adjacent to or over the road.

(3) The requirements of regulations 3, 4 and 5 relating to any death, injury or case of disease shall not apply to a member of the armed forces of the Crown or of a visiting force who was on duty at the relevant time (and for the purposes of this paragraph a visiting force has the meaning assigned to it by section 12(1) of the Visiting Forces Act 1952(1)).

(4) Regulations 3, 4 and 5 shall not apply otherwise than in respect of offshore workplaces to anything which is required to be notified under any of the statutory provisions specified in Schedule 7.

(5) Regulation 3(1)(i) shall not apply to a self-employed person who is injured at premises of which he is the owner or occupier, but regulation 3(1)(ii) shall apply to such a self-employed person (other than in the case of death) and it shall be sufficient compliance with regulation 3(1)(ii) if that self-employed person makes arrangements for the report to be sent to the enforcing authority by some other person.

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1952 c. 67; as amended by section 170(1) of, and paragraph 14 of Schedule 15 to, the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (1988 c. 33)