Citation, commencement and extent
3.—(1) These Regulations shall not extend to Northern Ireland except as provided by paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) Regulations 1, 2(1), (4) and (5), 7, 33(2) and 34 (f) and Chapter 3 of Part 3 of these Regulations shall extend to Northern Ireland.
(3) In so far as regulations 4, 31, 32 and 38 apply to Chapter 3 of Part 3 of these Regulations or the PIC Regulation, they shall extend to Northern Ireland.
(4) Except for the regulations listed in paragraph (5), these Regulations apply outside Great Britain as sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the 1974 Act apply by virtue of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application Outside Great Britain) Order 2013(1).
(5) The regulations referred to in paragraph (4) are—
(a)regulation 7;
(b)Chapter 3 of Part 3; and
(c)regulations 4, 31, 32 and 33 in so far as they apply to Chapter 3 of Part 3 or to the PIC Regulation.