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The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Chemical Agents) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
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These Regulations implement Commission Directive 2009/161/EU (O.J. No. L 338, 19.12.2009, p.87) which establishes a third list of indicative occupational exposure limit values for exposure to chemical agents at work. They do so by amending the definition of “national occupational exposure limit value” in the Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) (Chemical Agents) Regulations 2010 (“the 2010 Regulations”) so that it includes a reference to the list of indicative occupational exposure limit values in the Annex to that Directive (regulation 2, new paragraph (d)).
The Regulations also include in that definition a reference to an earlier list of indicative occupational exposure limit values set out in Commission Directive 2000/39/EC (O.J. No. L 142, 16.6.2000, p.47) (regulation 2, new paragraph (b)).
Regulation 3 inserts into the 2010 Regulations a provision requiring the Secretary of State to review those Regulations and publish a report within the five years after these Regulations come into force and every five years after that. Following a review it will fall to the Secretary of State to consider whether the 2010 Regulations should remain as they are, or be revoked or be amended. A further instrument would be needed to revoke the 2010 Regulations or to amend them.
The Regulations are made under powers contained in the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, except in respect of their application to Government ships where the power is provided by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.
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