1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 1991 and (except for regulations 10(2) and 11 and Part II of Schedule 9 and regulation 15, so far as it revokes regulations 10(2) and 11 of and Part II of Schedule 9 to the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 1990(1) which shall come into force on 3rd January 1992) shall come into force on 3rd October 1991.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“approval” includes the amendment of an approval, and “amendment of an approval” includes the issue of a new approval replacing the original incorporating an amendment;
“employment medical adviser” means an employment medical adviser appointed under section 56(1) of the 1974 Act;
“the mines and quarries provisions” means such of the relevant statutory provisions as relate exclusively to—
and includes regulations, rules and orders relating to a particular mine (whether they are continued in force by regulation 7(3) of the Mines and Quarries Acts 1954 to 1971 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations 1974(4) or are health and safety regulations);
“original approval” and “original authority” do not include an amendment of an approval or an amendment of an authority
“renewal of approval” or “renewal of licence” means respectively the granting of an approval or licence to follow a previous approval or licence without any amendment or gap in time;
“respiratory protective equipment” includes any respirator and any breathing apparatus.
(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to—
(a)a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered;
(b)a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference appears.