Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Part III Amendment of the management of health and safety at work regulations (northern Ireland) 2000

Amendment of the 2000 Management Regulations: general provisions

7.  Subject to regulation 9, the provisions of the 2000 Management Regulations amended by this Part shall continue to be regarded (if they would not otherwise continue to be so regarded) as provisions of health and safety regulations within the meaning of the 1978 Order(1).

Amendment of the 2000 Management Regulations

8.—(1) The words “and by Part II of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001” shall be inserted into the following provisions of the 2000 Management Regulations, as follows—

(a) in regulation 1(2) (interpretation), at the end of the definition of “the preventive and protective measures”;

(b) in regulation 3 (risk assessment), at the end of paragraph (1);

(c) in regulation 7 (health and safety assistance), at the end of paragraph (1);

(d) in regulation 11 (co-operation and co-ordination), in paragraph (1)(a) after the words “the relevant statutory provisions”; and

(e) in regulation 12 (persons working in host employers' or self-employed persons' undertakings), in paragraph (1)(b) after the words “the relevant statutory provisions”.

(2) In regulation 10(1) of the 2000 Management Regulations (information for employees)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (c), after the words “regulation 8(1)(a)”, there shall be inserted “and the measures referred to in regulation 4(2)(a) of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (d), after the words “regulation 8(1)(b)”, there shall be inserted “and regulation 4(2)(b) of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001”.

(3) In regulation 11(1) of the 2000 Management Regulations (co-operation and co-ordination), for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b) (taking into account the nature of his activities) take all reasonable steps to co-ordinate the measures he takes to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed upon him by or under the relevant statutory provisions and by Part II of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 with the measures the other employers concerned are taking to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed upon them by that legislation;”.

(4) In regulations 11(2) and 12(2) of the 2000 Management Regulations, after the words “Paragraph (1)” in each case where they occur, there shall be inserted “(except insofar as it refers to Part II of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001)”.

(1)

See Article 2(2) of the 1978 Order