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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3U.K. Amendments of Part I of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

2U.K.In section 22 (prohibition notices)—

(a)in subsections (1) and (2) (notices in respect of activities which are or are about to be carried on and involve a risk of serious personal injury), for the word “about”, in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the word “ “likely ”;

(b)for subsection (4) (notice to have immediate effect only if the risk is imminent) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

(4)A direction contained in a prohibition notice in pursuance of subsection (3)(d) above shall take effect—

(a)at the end of the period specified in the notice; or

(b)if the notice so declares, immediately.