The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

Made: 28th September 1992

Coming into operation: 16th November 1992

The Department of the Environment, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development. acting jointly as the Department concerned[^f00001], in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 17( 1) to (3). 43 1) and (2) and 55(2) of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978[^f00002] and of every other power enabling them in that behalf, after consultation as required by Article 46(1) of that Order with the Health and Safety Agency for Northern Ireland and such other bodies as appeared to those Departments to be appropriate, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 and shall come into operation on 16th November 1992.

Substitution of metric measurements for imperial measurements

2

The statutory provisions specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 shall be amended by substituting for the amounts or quantities set out opposite thereto in column 2 the amounts or quantities set out in the corresponding entry in column 3.

Repeals and modifications of statutory provisions relating to flash points of highly flammable liquids etc.

3

The statutory provisions specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 shall be repealed or modified to the extent set out in column 2.

Application to existing plant, buildings and other permanent structures

4

• (1) Where the measurements relating to any plant, building or other permanent structure in existence or under construction immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations complied with the requirements of the relevant statutory provisions as then in operation in so far as they related to the measurements of that plant, building or other permanent structure, then such compliance shall be deemed to be compliance with the relevant statutory provisions as amended by these Regulations.

• (2) In paragraph (1) “the relevant statutory provisions” means the statutory provisions listed in column 1 of Schedules 1 and 2.

SCHEDULE 1 — Adaptation of Statutory Provisions to Metric Units

1

Celluloid and Cinematograph Film Act 1922[^f00003]

• (a) Section 2(1)(a)

2

Petroleum (Consolidation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929[^f00004]

• (a) Section 1(1)(a)

3

Petroleum-Spirit (Motor Vehicles etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1930[^f00005]

• (a) Regulation 5(d)(ii)

4

Petroleum (Carbide of Calcium) Order (Northern Ireland) 1930[^f00006]

• (a) Article 2(i)

5

Petroleum (Mixtures) Order (Northern Ireland) 1930[^f00007]

• (a) Article 2

SCHEDULE 2 — Repeals and Modifications of Statutory Provisions relating to the Flash Points of Highly Flammable Liquids, etc.

1

Petroleum (Consolidation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929

• (i) Section 17

2

Petroleum (Mixtures) Order (Northern Ireland) 1930

• (i) Article 1

3

The Dry Cleaning Special Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1950[^f00008]

4

The Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1971[^f00009]

5

The Highly Flammable Liquids and Liquefied Petroleum Gases Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975[^f00010]

• (i) Regulation 2

6

The Fire Certificates (Special Premises) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991[^f00011]

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

Trevor Pearson — Assistant Secretary — 28th September 1992.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on

I. C. Henderson — Assistant Secretary — 24th September 1992.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on

D Thomson — Assistant Secretary — 24th Septemeber 1992.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations—

• (a) metrication certain imperial units of measurement in the statutory provisions listed in column 1 of Schedule 1; and

• (b) provide for the statutory provisions relating to the determination of the flash points of highly flammable liquids, etc, specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to be repealed or modified to the extent set out in column 2.

The metrication referred to in paragraph (u) fulfils obligations arising from Council Directive 80/181/EEC of 20th December 1979 (O.J. L39, page 40 as amended by Council Directive 85/1/EEC (O.J. L2, page 11) and Council Directive 89/617/EEC (O.J. L357, page 28)) on the approximation of laws of Member States relating to units of measurement. Copies of those EEC Directives can be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See definitions of “the Department concerned” and “regulations” in Article 2(2) of S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9)

[^f00003]: 1922 c. 35. Extended to Northern Ireland by the Uniformity of Laws Act (Northern Ireland) 1922 c. 20 s. 1 and Sch. 5

[^f00004]: 1929 c. 13 (N.I.)

[^f00005]: S.R & O. (N.I.) 1930 No. 11 (p. 330)

[^f00006]: S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1930 No 20 (p. 328)

[^f00007]: S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1930 No. 21 (p. 325)

[^f00008]: S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1950. 117 (p.268)

[^f00009]: S.R. & O. (N I.) 1971 No. 372 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

[^f00010]: S.R. 1975 No. 256

[^f00011]: S.R. 1991 No. 446