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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (No. 1039 (N.I. 9))

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Northern Ireland Orders in Council

1978 No. 1039 (N.I. 9)

Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978

[25th July 1978]

Contents

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  1. PART I

    INTRODUCTORY

    1. 1..Title and commencement

    2. 2..Interpretation

  2. PART II

    HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE IN CONNECTION WITH WORK, AND CONTROL OF DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES

    1. Preliminary

      1. 3 ..Preliminary

    2. General duties

      1. 4 ..General duties of employers to their employees

      2. 5 ..General duties of employers and self-employed to persons other than their employees

      3. 6 ..General duties of persons concerned with premises to persons other than their employees

      4. 7 ..General duties of manufacturers etc. as regards articles and substances for use at work

      5. 8 ..General duties of employees at work

      6. 9 ..Duty not to interfere with or misuse things provided pursuant to certain provisions

      7. 10 ..Duty not to charge employees for things done or provided pursuant to certain specific requirements

      8. 11 ..General duty of the Department concerned

    3. The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland

      1. 12 ..Establishment of the Executive

      2. 13 ..Functions of the Executive

      3. 14 ..Control of the Executive by the Department

      4. 15 ..Additional functions of the Executive

    4. Investigations and inquiries

      1. 16 ..Investigations and inquiries

    5. Health and safety regulations and approved codes of practice

      1. 17 ..Health and safety regulations

      2. 18 ..Approval of codes of practice by the Executive

      3. 19 ..Use of approved codes of practice in criminal proceedings

    6. Enforcement

      1. 20 ..Authorities responsible for enforcement of the relevant statutory provisions

      2. 21 ..Appointment of inspectors

      3. 22 ..Powers of inspectors

      4. 23 ..Improvement notices

      5. 24 ..Prohibition notices

      6. 25 ..Provisions supplementary to Articles 23 and 24

      7. 26 ..Appeal against improvement or prohibition notice

      8. 27 ..Power to deal with cause of imminent danger

      9. 27A ..Power of customs officer to detain articles and substances

      10. 28 ..Power of enforcing authorities to indemnify their inspectors

    7. Obtaining and disclosure of information

      1. 29 ..Obtaining of information

      2. 29A ..Information communicated by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs

      3. 30 ..Restrictions on disclosure of information

    8. Provisions as to offences

      1. 31 ..Offences

      2. 32 ..Extension of time for bringing summary proceedings

      3. 33 ..Venue

      4. 34 ..Offences due to fault of other person

      5. 34A ..Offences by bodies corporate

      6. 35 ..Restriction on institution of proceedings

      7. 36 ..Prosecutions by inspectors

      8. 37 ..Onus of proving limits of what is practicable etc

      9. 38 ..Evidence

      10. 39 ..Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied and, in certain cases, forfeiture

    9. Financial provisions

      1. 40 ..Financial provisions

    10. Miscellaneous and supplementary

      1. 41 ..Representations in connection with licensing provisions in the relevant statutory provisions

      2. 42 ..Default powers

      3. 43 ..Civil liability

      4. 44 ..Application to Crown

      5. 45 ..Adaptation of enactments to metric units or appropriate metric units

      6. 46 ..Regulations under the relevant statutory provisions

      7. 47 ..Exclusion of application to domestic employment

      8. 47A ..Application of Part to police

  3. PART III

    THE EMPLOYMENT MEDICAL ADVISORY SERVICE

    1. 48..The employment medical advisory service

    2. 49..Fees

    3. 50..Supplementary

    4. 51..Amendment of the Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965

  4. PART IV

    MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

    1. 53..Application to explosives

    2. 54..General power to repeal or modify statutory provisions

    3. 55..Regulations

  5. SCHEDULE 1

    EXISTING STATUTORY PROVISIONS

  6. SCHEDULE 2

    THE HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND

  7. SCHEDULE 3

    SUBJECT-MATTER OF HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS

  9. SCHEDULE 5

    THE FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 (c.20)

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