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SCHEDULE 10Enforcement, offences and civil liability

Application of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978

2.—(1) Articles—

(a)18 to 28 (approval of codes of practice and enforcement);

(b)31 to 39 (provisions as to offences); and

(c)43(2) (civil liability),

of the 1978 Order shall, subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, and to the extent that they would not otherwise do so, apply to these Regulations as if they were health and safety regulations for the purposes of that Order.

(2) The Articles of the 1978 Order which are applied to these Regulations by sub-paragraph (1) shall so apply as if any reference to—

(a)danger, or danger to health and safety, were a reference to danger to the health or safety of humans or animals or to danger to the environment; and

(b)harm were a reference to harm to humans, animals or the environment.

(3) Articles 24 and 27 of the 1978 Order, as applied to these Regulations by sub-paragraph (1), shall apply as if the reference in those Articles to serious personal injury were a reference to—

(a)serious personal injury to humans;

(b)a breach of the Regulations and serious injury to animals; or

(c)a breach of the Regulations and serious harm to the environment.