Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 and shall come into operation on 16th November 1992.
Substitution of metric measurements for imperial measurements
2. The statutory provisions specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 shall be amended by substituting for the amounts or quantities set out opposite thereto in column 2 the amounts or quantities set out in the corresponding entry in column 3.
Repeals and modifications of statutory provisions relating to flash points of highly flammable liquids etc.
3. The statutory provisions specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 shall be repealed or modified to the extent set out in column 2.
Application to existing plant, buildings and other permanent structures
4.—(1) Where the measurements relating to any plant, building or other permanent structure in existence or under construction immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations complied with the requirements of the relevant statutory provisions as then in operation in so far as they related to the measurements of that plant, building or other permanent structure, then such compliance shall be deemed to be compliance with the relevant statutory provisions as amended by these Regulations.
(2) In paragraph (1) “the relevant statutory provisions” means the statutory provisions listed in column 1 of Schedules 1 and 2.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on
L.S.
Trevor Pearson
Assistant Secretary
28th September 1992.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on
L.S.
I. C. Henderson
Assistant Secretary
24th September 1992.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on
L.S.
D Thomson
Assistant Secretary
24th Septemeber 1992.