Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st February 2001.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the 1996 Order” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(1);

“the assessment” means, in the case of an employer or self-employed person, the assessment made or changed by him in accordance with regulation 3;

“child” means a person who is not over compulsory school age within the meaning of Article 46 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(2);

“employment business” means a business (whether or not carried on with a view to profit and whether or not carried on in conjunction with any other business) which supplies persons (other than seafarers) who are employed in it to work for and under the control of other persons in any capacity;

“fixed-term contract of employment” means a contract of employment for a specific term which is fixed in advance or which can be ascertained in advance by reference to some relevant circumstance;

“given birth” means delivered of a living child or, after twenty-four weeks of pregnancy, a stillborn child;

“new or expectant mother” means an employee who is pregnant; who has given birth within the previous six months; or who is breastfeeding;

“registered medical practitioner” means a fully registered person within the meaning of the Medical Act 1983(3);

“registered midwife” means a fully registered person within the meaning of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997(4);

“territorial waters” means United Kingdom territorial waters adjacent to Northern Ireland and “within territorial waters” includes on, over and under them;

“the preventive and protective measures” means the measures which have been identified by the employer or by the self-employed person in consequence of the assessment as the measures he needs to take to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed upon him by or under the relevant statutory provisions; and

“young person” means any person who has not attained the age of eighteen.

(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(5) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(1)

S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16)

(2)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)

(3)

1983 c. 54

(4)

1997 c. 24

(5)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.)