Health and Safety at Work Order (Application to Environmentally Hazardous Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
Citation and commencement1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Safety at Work Order (Application to Environmentally Hazardous Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 14th March 2003.
Interpretation2.
(1)
In these Regulations –
“the Directives” means –
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)
(j)
(k)
(2)
Extension of power to make regulations3.
For the purposes only of enabling regulations under Article 17 of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 to be made to implement any obligation imposed by any of the Directives or to deal with any matter arising out of or related to any such obligation, the reference to dangerous substances in Article 3(1)(c) of that Order shall have effect as if it included a reference to environmentally hazardous substances.
Revocations4.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 3rd Februaruy 2003.
These Regulations extend the reference to dangerous substances in Article 3(1)(c) of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 to include environmentally hazardous substances. (Regulation 3. The term “environmentally hazardous substances” is defined in regulation 2.)
The purpose of these Regulations is to enable regulations to be made under Article 17 of that Order to implement the Directives referred to in regulation 2.
These Regulations revoke and remake with amendments the Health and Safety at Work Order (Application to Environmentally Hazardous Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”) and the Health and Safety at Work Order (Application to Environmentally Hazardous Substances) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (“the 2000 Regulations”).
These Regulations add the Directives referred to in paragraphs (i) to (l) of regulation 2 to the Directives previously listed in the 1996 Regulations, as amended by the 2000 Regulations.
These Regulations have no impact on business.