1. These Regulations may be cited as the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 15th March 1999.
2.—(1) The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In Schedule 1 (List of substances assigned maximum exposure limits) after the words “Vinylidene chloride” in the first column, there shall be inserted, in that column, the words “(1, 1-Dichloroethylene)”.
(3) For Schedule 2 (Prohibition of certain substances hazardous to health for certain purposes) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
(4) In Schedule 8 (Other substances and processes to which the definition of “carcinogen” relates), in the entry relating to “mustard gas”, for the words “B,B'Dichlorodiethyl” there shall be substituted the words “β, β'-Dichlorodiethyl”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on
L.S.
R. G. F. Fry
Assistant Secretary
29th January 1999.