Health and Safety (Consultation with Employees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 1978 Order” means the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(1);

“the 1979 Regulations” means the Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979(2);

“employee” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the 1978 Order but shall not include a person employed as a domestic servant in a private household; and “employer” shall be construed accordingly;

“the relevant statutory provisions” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the 1978 Order;

“representatives of employee safety” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 4(1)(b);

“safety representative” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the 1979 Regulations;

“workplace” means, in relation to an employee, any place where that employee is likely to work or which he is likely to frequent in the course of his employment or incidentally to it and, in relation to a representative of employee safety, any place where the employees he represents are likely so to work or frequent.

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to consulting employees directly or consulting representatives of employee safety is a reference to consulting them pursuant to regulation 3 and regulation 4(1)(a) or (b), as the case may be.

(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(3) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(1)

S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9)

(2)

S.R. 1979 No. 437 as amended by S.R. 1992 No. 459

(3)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.)