LegalizeSAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE AT WORK ACT, 1989
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38 amending acts · 2007-05-07, Medical Practitioners Act 2007
- (a) the emission into a place of work of any specified gas, vapour, smoke, dust, or any other specified substance arising from work activities,
- (b) the emission into the working environment of noise, vibration, any ionising or other radiations,
- (c) the monitoring of any such emissions in a place of work;
- (29) empowering inspectors in specified circumstances to require persons to submit written particulars of measures proposed to be taken to achieve compliance with any of the relevant statutory provisions;
- (30) requirements to be imposed with respect to the keeping and preservation of records, including manual or electronic data, books, registers, documents, plans and maps;
- (31) requirements to be imposed as regards the safety, health or welfare of persons with respect to the management of animals in or at places of work;
- (32) requirements to be imposed as regards any place of work in relation to—
- (a) precautions to be taken against dangers to which such place of work or persons therein are or may be exposed by reason of conditions (including natural conditions) existing in the vicinity of that place,
- (b) securing that persons in a place of work leave that place of work in specified circumstances where there is a risk to their safety or health;
- (33) requirements to be imposed as to the doing of or prohibition of any specified thing where any accident or other occurrence of a specified kind has occurred;
- (34) requirements to be imposed with respect to the carrying out of research in connection with the purposes of this Act;
- (35) requirements to be imposed in prescribed circumstances with respect to the taking of precautions in connection with the risk of fire;
- (36) requirements to be imposed with respect to the notification in a specified manner of specified matters relating to the safety, health or welfare of persons at work, or that of other persons arising out of work activities, (including specified information relating to specified accidents, diseases or dangerous occurrences) to the Authority or an enforcing agency or to an inspector of the Authority or an enforcing agency or to any other specified person;
- (37) requirements to be imposed with respect to the safe lifting or handling by persons at work of any load likely to cause injury to a person so lifting or handling it.
FIFTH SCHEDULE Repeal and Revocation of Certain Provisions of the Existing Enactments Relating to Penalties
PART I Repeal of Statutes
| Number and Year | Short Title | Extent of Repeal |
| (1) | (2) | (3) |
| No. 10 of 1955 | Factories Act, 1955 | In section 40 (14) (as inserted by the Safety in Industry Act, 1980) the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding £150”. |
| In section 72 (4) (as inserted by the Safety in Industry Act, 1980) the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding £300”. | ||
| In section 74 (6) (as inserted by the Safety in Industry Act, 1980) the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding £150”. | ||
| In section 98 (5) (as inserted by the Safety in Industry Act, 1980) the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding £300 or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment”. | ||
| Section 101. | ||
| In section 102 (as inserted by the Safety in Industry Act, 1980) the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine (not exceeding £600 in all) not exceeding £15 for each day on which the non-compliance continues”. | ||
| In section 103 (1) (as inserted by the Safety in Industry Act, 1980) the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding £500”. | ||
| Section 105. | ||
| No. 3 of 1958 | Office Premises Act, 1958 | Section 32. |
| In section 33, the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds for each day on which the non-compliance continues”. | ||
| No. 7 of 1965 | Mines and Quarries Act, 1965 | Section 135. |
| Section 140. |
PART II Revocation of Statutory Instruments
| Number and Year | Title | Extent of Revocation |
| (1) | (2) | (3) |
| S.I. No. 382 of 1979 | European Communities (Dangerous Substances and Preparations) (Marketing and Use) Regulations, 1979 | In regulation 9 (1), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £600”. |
| In regulation 9 (2), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £300”. | ||
| Regulation 9 (3). | ||
| S.I. No. 383 of 1979 | European Communities (Dangerous Substances) (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 1979 | In regulation 13 (1), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £600”. |
| Regulation 13 (2). | ||
| In regulation 13 (3), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £300”. | ||
| S.I. No. 365 of 1980 | European Communities (Paints, etc.) (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 1980 | In regulation 7, the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500”. |
| S.I. No. 402 of 1980 | European Communities (Safety Signs at Places of Work) Regulations, 1980 | In regulation 6, the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500”. |
| In regulation 7 (2), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £200”. | ||
| S.I. No. 61 of 1981 and S.I. No. 244 of 1986 | European Communities (Electrical Equipment for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres) Regulations, 1981 and 1986 | In regulation 6 (3), of the European Communities (Electrical Equipment for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres) Regulations, 1981 (as amended by regulation 5 of the European Communities (Electrical Equipment for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres) (Amendment) Regulations, 1986) the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £300”. |
| S.I. No. 149 of 1981 | European Communities (Dangerous Substances and Preparations) (Marketing and Use) Regulations, 1981 | In regulation 8 (1), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £600”. |
| In regulation 8 (2), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100”. | ||
| S.I. No. 258 of 1982 | European Communities (Dangerous Substances) (Classification, Packaging, Labelling and Notification) Regulations, 1982 | In regulation 15 (1), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £600”. |
| In regulation 16 (5), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £600”. | ||
| S.I. No. 189 of 1983 | European Communities (Dangerous Preparations) (Solvents) (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 1983 | In regulation 9, the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500”. |
| S.I. No. 244 of 1985 | European Communities (Dangerous Substances and Preparations) (Marketing and Use) Regulations, 1985 | In regulation 7 (1), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £600”. |
| In regulation 7 (2), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100”. | ||
| S.I. No. 47 of 1986 | European Communities (Dangerous Substances and Preparations) (Marketing and Use) Regulations, 1986 | In regulation 7 (1), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £600”. |
| In regulation 7 (2), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100”. | ||
| S.I. No. 204 of 1987 | European Communities (Dangerous Substances and Preparations) (Marketing and Use) Regulations, 1987 | In regulation 14 (1), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000”. |
| In regulation 14 (2), the words “and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £350”. |
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