4.—(1) The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), at the appropriate place insert—
““working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of Great Britain;”.
(3) In regulation 15 (restriction on parallel requirements), after paragraph (4) insert—
“(5) Where the responsible person is under—
(a)a requirement to make a report under these Regulations; and—
(b)either or both—
(i)a requirement to make a report under the EU Reporting Regulation, other than one that may be satisfied by making a report under these regulations; and
(ii)a requirement to make a report under regulation 9 of the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations 1996(2) (reporting of danger to an installation) in respect of an installation in external waters,
only one report is required if the conditions in paragraph (6) are met.
(6) The conditions referred to in paragraph (5) are—
(a)the facts giving rise to each requirement are identical;
(b)the facts occur on or after 6th April 2017;
(c)the information required to be provided by each requirement is provided; and
(d)the report is made within 10 working days.
(7) In paragraph (5), “EU Reporting Regulation” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1112/2014 of 13 October 2014 determining a common format for sharing of information on major hazard indicators by the operators and owners of offshore oil and gas installations and a common format for the publication of the information on major hazard indicators by the Member States.”.
(4) In paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 1, omit paragraph (a).
S.I. 2013/1471, amended by S.I. 2015/398; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
S.I. 1996/913, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.