2011 No. 283
The Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 and Office and Shop Premises Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011
Made
Coming into operation
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment1, being the Department concerned2, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 17(1) and (3)3 of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 19784 (“the 1978 Order”).
Citation and commencementI11
These Regulations may be cited as the Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 and Office and Shop Premises Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 and shall come into operation on 31 October 2011 (referred to in these Regulations as “the commencement date”).
Repeal of certain notification requirementsI22
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2
The Office and Shop Premises (Notification of Employment of Persons) Order (Northern Ireland) 19679 (which relates to notices required by section 48 of the 1966 Act) is revoked.
Abolition of requirement to keep general registersI43
1
Section 140 (duties to keep and to make entries in general registers and to provide extracts on request) of the 1965 Act is repealed.
2
In section 14110 (preservation of registers and records) of the 1965 Act for “The general register and every other register” substitute “Any register”.
3
The repeal by this regulation of section 140 of the 1965 Act does not affect subsection (3) of that section in its application to a register required to be kept under the Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children’s Act 192011.
4
The reference to a register in section 141 of the 1965 Act as amended by paragraph (2) does not include a general register previously required by that section to be kept and preserved unless it contains a record that was entered in or attached to the register in pursuance of section 40(2) (record of gasholder examinations) within the period of two years ending with the commencement date.
5
In the case of a general register containing such a record, section 141 of the 1965 Act is to be read as requiring the record to be preserved and kept available for inspection for at least two years after the date of the last record entered in or attached to the register.
Amendment, repeals and revocation consequential on regulation 3I34
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2
The following provisions of the 1965 Act are repealed—
a
section 120(7) (meaning of “general register” in relation to application of the Act to parts of buildings let off as separate factories);
b
in sections 123(2)(j), 124(2)(j) and 125(2)(j) (application of provisions relating to general registers to things other than factories), the words “general registers (so far as applicable)”;
c
in section 125(5) the word “general”;
d
in section 176(1) (interpretation), the definition of “general register”.
3
The Factory General Register Order (Northern Ireland) 196612 (which relates to general registers kept under the Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965) is revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 26 July 2011.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)