Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Application to visiting forces, etc.

18.—(1) These Regulations shall apply to a visiting force or an international headquarters or defence organisation designated for the purposes of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964(1)—

(a)only to the extent that they apply to the Crown; and

(b)with the substitution, for any reference in these Regulations (and in any provision of the 1984 Order applied by these Regulations) to the Authority, of a reference to the fire service maintained by the Secretary of State for Defence.

(2) In paragraph (1), “visiting force” means any such body, contingent or detachment of the forces of any country as is a visiting force for the purposes of any of the provisions of the Visiting Forces Act 1952(2).