Management of Health and Safety at Work and Fire Precautions (Workplace) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment1 being Departments designated2 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19723, in relation to measures relating to employers' obligations in respect of the health and safety of workers and in relation to the minimum health and safety requirements for the workplace that relate to fire safety, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling them in that behalf, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 48 and 49(6) of the Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 19844, and now vested in it5 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment being the Department concerned6, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 2(5), 17(1), (2), (3) and (5), 43(2), 54(1) and 55(2) of, and paragraphs 5(1), 6, 7(1), 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17(a) of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 19787 (“the 1978 Order”) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and for the purpose of giving effect without modifications to proposals submitted to it by the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland under Article 13(1A)8 of the 1978 Order, after the carrying out by the said Executive of consultations in accordance with Article 46(3)9 of the 1978 Order, hereby make the following Regulations: