The Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998

1. Introductory Text

2. 1. Citation and commencement

3. 2. Interpretation

4. 3. Local authorities to be enforcing authorities in certain cases

5. 4. Exceptions

6. 5. Arrangements enabling responsibility for enforcement to be transferred

7. 6. Arrangements enabling responsibility for enforcement to be assigned in cases of uncertainty

8. 7. Revocation of instruments

9. Signature

10. 1. SCHEDULE 1

       MAIN ACTIVITIES WHICH DETERMINE WHETHER LOCAL AUTHORITIES WILL BE ENFORCING AUTHORITIES

       1. 1. The sale of goods, or the storage of goods for...

       2. 2. The display or demonstration of goods at an exhibition for...

       3. 3. Office activities.

       4. 4. Catering services.

       5. 5. The provision of permanent or temporary residential accommodation including the...

       6. 6. Consumer services provided in a shop except dry cleaning or...

       7. 7. Cleaning (wet or dry) in coin operated units in launderettes...

       8. 8. The use of a bath, sauna or solarium, massaging, hair...

       9. 9. The practice or presentation of the arts, sports, games, entertainment...

       10. 10. The hiring out of pleasure craft for use on inland...

       11. 11. The care, treatment, accommodation or exhibition of animals, birds or...

       12. 12. The activities of an undertaker, except where the main activity...

       13. 13. Church worship or religious meetings.

       14. 14. The provision of car parking facilities within the perimeter of...

       15. 15. The provision of child care, or playgroup or nursery facilities....

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       ACTIVITIES IN RESPECT OF WHICH THE HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE IS THE ENFORCING AUTHORITY

       1. 1. Any activity in a mine or quarry other than a...

       2. 2. Any activity in a fairground.

       3. 3. Any activity in premises occupied by a radio, television or...

       4. 4. The following activities carried on at any premises by persons...

       5. 5. The use of ionising radiations for medical exposure (within the...

       6. 6. Any activity in premises occupied by a radiography undertaking in...

       7. 7. Agricultural activities, and any activity at an agricultural show which...

       8. 8. Any activity on board a sea-going ship.

       9. 9. Any activity in relation to a ski slope, ski lift,...

       10. 10. Fish, maggot and game breeding except in a zoo.

       11. 11. Any activity in relation to a pipeline within the meaning...

       12. 12. The operation of a railway.

    3. SCHEDULE 3

       REVOCATION OF INSTRUMENTS

11. Explanatory Note