Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
CINEMATOGRAPHS AND CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS
Made
28th September 2004
Coming into operation
1st November 2004
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Cinematograph (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2004.
2.—(1) The Cinematograph (Safety) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965(3) shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) In –
(a)regulation 8(1), for “twenty-one” there shall be substituted “eighteen”;
(b)regulation 8(2), for “twenty-one” there shall be substituted “eighteen”;
(c)regulation 31, for “twenty one” there shall be substituted “eighteen”;
(d)regulation 36(7)(a), for “twenty-one” there shall be substituted “eighteen”;
(e)regulation 45(1), for “twenty-one” there shall be substituted “eighteen”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 28th September 2004.
L.S.
M. Bohill
A senior officer of the
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
1. These Regulations amend the Cinematograph (Safety) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965 to lower the age from twenty-one to eighteen of:
(a)a licensee or a person nominated by the licensee to be responsible for the premises at all times when the public is on the premises (regulations 8(1) and (2) and 45(1));
(b)a person who is responsible for ensuring that electrical installations and equipment in the projection room are kept in good order (regulation 31); and
(c)a person in charge of and present in the projection room whenever inflammable film is being projected (regulation 36(7)(a)).
2. The declaration on costs and benefits relating to these Regulations prepared by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment is held at the offices of the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland at 83 Ladas Drive, Belfast BT6 9FR, from where copies may be obtained on request.
S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1965 No. 129, as amended by S.R. 1977 No. 17 and S.R. 1995 No. 192