2006 No. 255
The Management of Health and Safety at Work (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006
Made
Coming into operation
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment1, being a Department 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, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) and being the Department concerned4, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 2(5), 17(1), (2), (3), and (5)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 19786 (“the 1978 Order”). The Regulations give effect without modifications to proposals submitted to it by the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland under Article 13(1A)(c)7 of the 1978 Order after the Executive had carried out consultations in accordance with Article 46(3)8 of the 1978 Order.
Citation and commencement1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Management of Health and Safety at Work (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 17th July 2006.
2
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19549 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Amendment of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20002
For regulation 22 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 200010 there shall be substituted the following regulation—
Restriction of civil liability for breach of statutory duty22
1
Breach of a duty imposed on an employer by these Regulations shall not confer a right of action in any civil proceedings insofar as that duty applies for the protection of a third party.
2
Breach of a duty imposed on an employee by regulation 14 shall not confer a right of action in any civil proceedings insofar as that duty applies for the protection of a third party.
3
In this regulation, “third party”, in relation to the undertaking, means any person who may be affected by that undertaking other than the employer whose undertaking it is and persons in his employment.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 8th June 2006.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)