Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993

Interpretation

2.  —

(1) In these Regulations—

“new workplace” means a workplace used for the first time as a workplace after 7th March 1993;

“public road” means a road within the meaning assigned to that term by Article 2(2) of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1980(1);

“traffic route” means a route for pedestrian traffic, vehicles or both and includes any stairs, staircase, fixed ladder, doorway, gateway, loading bay or ramp;

“workplace” means, subject to paragraph (2), any premises or part of premises which are not domestic premises and are made available to any person as a place of work, and includes—

(a)

any place within the premises to which such person has access while at work; and

(b)

any room, lobby, corridor, staircase, road or other place used as a means of access to or egress from that place of work or where facilities are provided for use in connection with the place of work other than a public road,

but shall not include a modification, an extension or conversion of any of the above until such modification, extension or conversion is complete.

(2) Any reference in these Regulations, except in paragraph (1), to a modification, an extension or a conversion is a reference, as the case may be, to a modification, an extension or a conversion of a workplace started after 7th March 1993.

(3) Any requirement that anything done or provided in pursuance of these Regulations shall be suitable shall be construed to include a requirement that it is suitable for any person in respect of whom such thing is so done or provided.

(1)

S.I. 1980/1085 (N.I. 11)