Health and Safety at Work (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

13.  In Article 20 (enforcement authorities)—

(a) in paragraph (1) after “concerned” insert “and the Executive”;

(b) for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) Regulations may—

(a) make a specified authority or authorities of any specified class responsible for the enforcement of the relevant statutory provisions to such extent as may be prescribed;

(b) make provision for enabling responsibility for enforcing any of the relevant statutory provisions to be, to such extent as may be determined under the regulations—

(i) transferred from the Executive to a specified authority or from that authority to the Executive; or

(ii) assigned to the Executive or to a specified authority for the purpose of removing any uncertainty as to what are under this paragraph their respective responsibilities for the enforcement of those provisions;

and any regulations made in pursuance of sub-paragraph (b) shall include provision for securing that any transfer or assignment effected under the regulations is brought to the notice of persons affected by it.”;

(c) in paragraph (4)—

(i) after “concerned” insert “or the Executive”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), for the words from “, and with respect” onwards substitute “in accordance with such guidance as the Executive may give to the authority.”.