1992 No. 413
The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992
Made
Coming into operation
The Department of the Environment, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development. acting jointly as the Department concerned1, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 17( 1) to (3). 43 1) and (2) and 55(2) of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 19782 and of every other power enabling them in that behalf, after consultation as required by Article 46(1) of that Order with the Health and Safety Agency for Northern Ireland and such other bodies as appeared to those Departments to be appropriate, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement1
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 measurements2
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The statutory provisions specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 shall be repealed or modified to the extent set out in column 2.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 structures4
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.
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SCHEDULE 1Adaptation of Statutory Provisions to Metric Units
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
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Provisions amended | Present Amounts or Quantities | Substituted Amounts or Quantities |
| one hundredweight | 50 kilograms |
| eighty pounds | 37 kilograms |
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Part II, regulation 3 | 40 pounds | 18 kilograms |
Part III, regulation 10 | one ton (where those words twice occur) | 1 tonne |
Part III, regulation 11 | one ton | 1 tonne |
| one pint | 570 millilitres |
| three gallons | 15 litres |
| two gallons | 10 litres |
| sixty gallons | 275 litres |
| twenty feet | 6 metres |
| two gallons | 10 litres |
| twenty feet | 6 metres |
| two gallons | 10 litres |
| twenty feet | 6 metres |
| two gallons | 10 litres |
| one gill | 150 millilitres |
| sixty gallons thirty gallons | 275 litres 140 litres |
| two gallons | 10 litres |
| fifty feet fifteen feet | 15 metres 5 metres |
| twenty feet | 6 metres |
| 5 lbs 1 lb | 2.5 kilograms 500 grams |
| 28 lbs | 13 kilograms |
| 30 lbs 1 lb | 15 kilograms 500 grams |
| gallons ten pounds one gallon one and a quarter pounds one pint | litres 5 kilograms 5 litres 570 grams 570 millilitres |
SCHEDULE 2Repeals and Modifications of Statutory Provisions relating to the Flash Points of Highly Flammable Liquids, etc.
Column 1 | Column 2 |
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Provisions | Extent of Repeal or Modification |
| After subsection (3) insert the following new subsection—
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| Repeal. |
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| Repeal. |
| For the words following “Petroleum Spirit” substitute the following words—
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| For “seventy-three degrees Fahrenheit” substitute “23 degrees Celsius”. |
| For the words following “shall be tested by” substitute the words—
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Paragraph 2 (sedimentary and viscous mixtures) |
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Paragraph 3 (solid mixtures) |
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| For the definition of “Abel closed test” substitute the following definition—
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| Repeal. |
| For the definition of “highly flammable liquid” substitute the following definition—
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(This note is not part of the Regulations.)