Health and Safety Information for Employees (Amendments and Repeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Regulation 2(c)

SCHEDULE 1 Schedule to be inserted in the Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991

Regulations 2(3) and (4)

“SCHEDULE 1 Premises and Activities within Territorial Waters

1.   Any of the premises and activities mentioned in regulation 4(1) of the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(1).

2.— (a) The working of a mine, any premises and activities relating to the working of a mine and to work for the purpose of or in connection with the working of any part of a mine;

(b) In this paragraph “mine” and “working of a mine” have the same meaning as in the Mines Act (Northern Ireland) 1969(2).

3.— (a) The construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, maintenance, cleaning, demolition and dismantling of any building or other structure not being a vessel, or any preparation for any such activity;

(b) the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel;

(c) (i) subject to head (ii), diving operations;

(ii) for the purposes of this Schedule, a person shall be deemed to be engaged in diving operations throughout any period from the time when he commences to prepare for diving until the time when—

(aa) he is no longer subjected to raised pressure;

(bb) he has normal inert gas partial pressure in his tissues; and

(cc) if he entered the water, he has left it,

and diving operations include the activity of any person in connection with the health and safety of a person who is, or is deemed to be, engaged in diving operations;

(d) the construction, reconstruction, finishing, refitting, repair, maintenance, cleaning or breaking up of a vessel except when carried out by the master or any officer or member of the crew of that vessel; and

(e) the maintaining on a station of a vessel which would be an offshore installation were it not a structure to which regulation 3(2)(d) of the Offshore and Pipelines (Management and Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 applies;

except that this paragraph shall not apply to vessels which are registered outside the United Kingdom and are on passage through territorial waters.”

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE 2 Miscellaneous Repeals and Revocations

Part I Repeals

Column 1	Column 2
Statutory provision	Extent of repeal
Petroleum (Consolidation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929(3)	Section 2(4).
Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965(4)	In section 119(1), paragraph (g) and the word “and” immediately before it. In section 123(2)(j), the words “notices, special regulations”. In section 125(2)(j), the words “notices, special regulations”. In section 125(5), the words “and copies of special regulations or the prescribed abstract of such regulations to be kept posted up on the premises” and the words from “and copies of the regulations” to the end of the sub-section. Section 138. Section 139.
Office and Shop Premises Act (Northern Ireland) 1966(5)	Section 45(9).
	In section 59(2) the number “45(9)”.

Part II Revocations

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Statutory provision	Reference	Extent of revocation
Regulations, dated 2nd January 1913 with respect to the manufacture and decoration of pottery.	S.R. & O. 1913/2 (Rev VII p. 408: 1913 p. 131)	Regulation 26.
Celluloid (Manufacture etc.) Regulations 1921	S.R. & O. 1921/1825	Paragraph (iii) of regulation 10. Paragraph (ii) of regulation 11.
Factories (Operations at Unfenced Machinery) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1939(6)	S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1939 No. 73 (p. 178)	Regulation 4.
Dry Cleaning (Special Regulations) (Northern Ireland) 1950	S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1950 No. 117 (p. 268)	Paragraph (2) of regulation 5.
Construction (Lifting Operations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1963	S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1963 No. 86	Paragraph (3) of regulation 16.
Non-Ferrous Metals (Melting and Founding) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1964	S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1964 No. 46	In Sub-paragraph (1)(d) of regulation 4 the last sentence.
Power Presses Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1966	S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1966 No. 311	In regulation 12 the last sentence.
Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1971	S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1971 No. 372	In paragraph (3) of regulation 2 the last sentence. Paragraph (3) of regulation 55.

(1)

S.R. 1995 No. 340

(2)

1969 c. 6 (N.I.)

(3)

1929 c. 13 (N.I.); section 2(4) was amended by Article 13(6) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Criminal Damage (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/426 (N.I. 4))

(4)

1965 c. 20 (N.I.) relevant amendments are Articles 12(1) and 19(2) of, and Part I of Schedule 3 and Part I of Schedule 5 to, the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 S.I. 1990/246 (N.I. 2) and S.R. 1991 No. 105

(5)

1966 c. 26 (N.I.) to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

(6)

The Factories (Operations at Unfenced Machinery) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1939 have been partially revoked, and will be wholly revoked on 1st January 1997, by S.R. 1993 No. 19