The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

Interpretation E+W+S

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

[F1 “mine” means a mine within the meaning of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954;]

[F2 “disabled person” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995;]

“new workplace” means a workplace used for the first time as a workplace after31st December 1992;

“public road” means (in England and Wales) a highway maintainable at public expense within the meaning of section 329 of the Highways Act 1980(1) and (in Scotland) a public road within the meaning assigned to that term by section 151 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984(2);

[F3 “quarry” means a quarry within the meaning of the Quarries Regulations 1999;]

“traffic route” means a route for pedestrian traffic, vehicles or both and includes any stairs, staircase, fixed ladder, doorway, gateway, loading bay or ramp;

“workplace” means, subject to paragraph (2), any premises or part of premises which are not domestic premises and are made available to any person as a place of work, and includes—

(a)

any place within the premises to which such person has access while at work; and

(b)

any room, lobby, corridor, staircase, road or other place used as a means of access to or egress from that place of work or where facilities are provided for use in connection with the place of work other than a public road.

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(2) Any reference in these Regulations, except in paragraph (1), to a modification, an extension or a conversion is a reference, as the case may be, to a modification, an extension or a conversion of a workplace started after 31st December 1992.

(3) Any requirement that anything done or provided in pursuance of these Regulations shall be suitable shall be construed to include a requirement that it is suitable for any person in respect of whom such thing is so done or provided.

(4) Any reference in these Regulations to—

(a) a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation in or Schedule to these Regulations so numbered; and

(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation in which the reference appears.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (26.10.1995 for specified purposes, 26.7.1998 in so far as not already in force) by The Quarries Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2036), reg. 1, Sch. 3 (with reg. 3)

F2 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (17.9.2002) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2174), regs. 1, 6(a)

F3 Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.1.2000) by The Quarries Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2024), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 Pt. 2

F4 Words in reg. 2(1) revoked (17.9.2002) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2174), regs. 1, 6(b)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 2 in force at 1.1.1993, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

1984 c. 54.