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Health and safety at work
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An Act to make provision about The NHS Constitution; to make provision about health care (including provision about the National Health Service and health bodies); to make provision for the control of the promotion and sale of tobacco products; to make provision about the investigation of complaints about privately arranged or funded adult social care; and for connected purposes. More
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The Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2007(34) and the Health and Safety (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2007(35) are revoked More
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These Regulations are made under the Compensation Act 2006 (“the Act”). Regulation 3 is brought into force on 1st July 2008 for the purpose of requiring certain authorised persons to take out and maintain professional indemnity insurance. Regulations 4 to 7 come into force on 1st August 2008 for the purpose of enabling an officer of the Regulator to take possession of written or electronic records pursuant to a search warrant More
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These Regulations amend Part I of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 (S.I. 1985/967), which prescribes diseases for which industrial injuries benefit is payable. Specifically these Regulations amend prescribed disease D12: chronic bronchitis or emphysema More
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Part 1 of the Housing Act 2004 (the Act) introduces the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), an evidence-based system for assessing housing conditions. Sections 2 and 4 of the Act provide for regulations to be made to prescribe descriptions of hazards, the method for assessing the seriousness of hazards and the manner and extent of inspections of residential premises to see whether category 1 or 2 hazards exist. The Act imposes a duty on local authorities to take enforcement action where a category 1 hazard exists and gives discretion to take action where a category 2 hazard exists More
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These Regulations impose health and safety requirements with respect to the provision for, and use by, persons at work of personal protective equipment. Personal protective equipment is defined in regulation 2(1) and certain types of such equipment are excluded from the application of regulations 4 to 12 by regulation 3(2) More
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These Regulations may be cited as the Smoke-free (Vehicle Operators and Penalty Notices) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st July 2007. These Regulations apply in relation to England only. More
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These Regulations are made under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Health Act 2006 and they contain requirements which relate to the display of no-smoking signs in smoke-free premises and vehicles in England. They were notified in draft to the European Commission in accordance with the Technical Standards Directive 98/34/EC as amended by Directive 98/48/EC (OJ L. 204, 21.7.1998, p.37 and OJ L. 217, 5.8.1998, p.18) More
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These Regulations which extend to England and Wales specify penalties and discounted amounts for the purposes of the smoking offences created by Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Health Act 2006 More
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This Order amends the Prescription Only Medicines (Human Use) Order 1997 (“the principal Order”) which specifies the description and classes of medicines (“prescription only medicines”) which, subject to exemptions specified in the Order, may be sold or supplied only in accordance with the prescription of an “appropriate practitioner” and may be administered only by or in accordance with the directions of such a practitioner More
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These Regulations implement, in relation to United Kingdom ships (as defined by regulation 2), Directive 2004/37/EC (O.J.No. L158, 30/04/2004 p. 50), which consolidates Directive 1990/394/EEC of 28th June 1990 on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens and mutagens, as amended by Directives 1997/42/EC and 1999/38/EC and is an individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC, on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work More
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Subject to the exceptions specified in paragraph 2 below, these Regulations give effect as respects Great Britain to the substantive provisions of Council Directive 90/269/EEC on the minimum health and safety requirements for the manual handling of loads where there is a risk particularly of back injury to workers More
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These Regulations amend the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2007. They provide for the charging of fees for work by the Health and Safety Executive in relation to an “assessment agreement” and a “design proposal”, as defined in the amending provisions, for nuclear installations More
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These Regulations re-enact the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 More
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This Order is the fourth commencement order under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (“the Act”) (c.28) More
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These Regulations impose health and safety requirements with respect to fish loading processes, that is to say, the loading, unloading, moving or handling of wet fish at or near a quay or on a fishing vessel when moored at the quay, and incidental activities. For this purpose the handling of wet fish does not include tinning, freezing solid in blocks, curing, freeze-drying or other means of processing More
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These Regulations impose health and safety requirements with respect to lifting equipment, which is defined in regulation 2(1) More
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These Regulations amend the Work at Height Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/735) (“the principal Regulations”) which give effect as respects Great Britain to Directive 2001/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L195, 19.7.2001, p.46), amending Council Directive 89/655/EEC (OJ No L393, 30.12.89, p.13) concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the use of work equipment by workers at work More
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These Regulations, which apply only to England, provide exemptions from the smoke-free requirements of section 2 of the Health Act 2006 and provide for most public and work vehicles to be smoke-free under section 5 of that Act More
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These Regulations make provision concerning the prohibition of smoking in certain premises and vehicles pursuant to powers contained in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Health Act 2006 More
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These Regulations amend the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 ("the 1999 Regulations") and the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 ("the 1997 Regulations") More
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These Regulations give the protection for and duties of employees under the relevant statutory provisions as defined in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 to those who are provided with "relevant training" as defined in regulation 2 More
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These Regulations amend the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2677) ("the COSHH Regulations"), the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1689) ("the CHIP Regulations"), and the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2676) ("the CLAW Regulations") More
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These Regulations may be cited as the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990 More
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These Regulations impose requirements and prohibitions with respect to persons at work who "dive" as defined in regulation 2(2). The Regulations apply to a "diving project" as defined in regulation 2(1) subject to specified exceptions (Regulation 3) More
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These Regulations implement as respects Great Britain Council Directive 2002/44/EC (OJ No L 177, 6.7.2002, p.13) on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (vibration) (sixteenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC). The Regulations impose duties on employers to protect employees who may be exposed to risk from exposure to vibration at work, and other persons who might be affected by the work, whether they are at work or not More
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These regulations impose requirements with respect to the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances. (The expressions "major accident" and "dangerous substances" are defined in regulation 2(1)). The Regulations implement Council Directive 96/82/EC on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, except Article 12 (which relates to land use planning) More
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This Order brings into force the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 on 1st October 2007 except in so far as it inserts new sections 29B(3), 29H(2) and 29I(2)(b) and (4) into the Public Order Act 1986 More
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Part 1 of the Housing Act 2004 (the Act) introduces the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), an evidence-based system for assessing housing conditions. Sections 2 and 4 of the Act provide for regulations to be made to prescribe descriptions of hazards, the method for assessing the seriousness of hazards and the manner and extent of inspections of residential premises to see whether category 1 or 2 hazards exist. The Act imposes a duty on local authorities to take enforcement action where a category 1 hazard exists and gives discretion to take action where a category 2 hazard exists More
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These Regulations provide that to the extent the revocation of the Health and Safety Fees Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/736) by the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/515) revoked the amendments to regulation 22 of the Control of Major Accident Hazard Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/743) (“COMAH”) those amendments are revived. The revived provisions incorporate amendments made to them by the Control of Major Accident Hazards (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1087). More
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This Order varies the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2001 (“the 2001 Order”), which applies sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (“the prescribed provisions”) to certain premises and activities in the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain and beyond the territorial sea to areas designated by order under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964. This Order makes the following changes of substance to the 2001 Order. More
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These Regulations consolidate, revoke and re-enact with amendments the Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002. More
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These Regulations shall, subject to regulation 1(4), apply to and in relation to the premises and activities outside Great Britain to which sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 apply by virtue of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application Outside Great Britain) Order 1989[4] as they apply within Great Britain. More
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An Act to place duties on local authorities and health bodies in respect of carers; and for connected purposes More
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An Act to make further provision for securing the health, safety and welfare of persons at work, for protecting others against risks to health or safety in connection with the activities of persons at work, for controlling the keeping and use and preventing the unlawful acquisition, possession and use of dangerous substances, and for controlling certain emissions into the atmosphere; to make further provision with respect to the employment medical advisory service; to amend the law relating to building regulations, and the Building (Scotland) Act 1959; and for connected purposes More
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This Order makes provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient for the reference to Commission Decision 2005/393/EC on protection and surveillance zones in relation to bluetongue and conditions applying to movements from or through these zones(2) to be construed as a reference to that instrument as amended from time to time More
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These Regulations revoke and replace the Coal Mines (Respirable Dust) Regulations 1975 (S.I. 1975/1433, as amended by S.I. 1978/807). The Regulations impose duties on mine owners, mine managers, employers, and employees to protect persons at work in coal mines from risks to their health arising from exposure to inhalable dust of mineral origin. They implement as respects Great Britain those provisions of Council Directive 98/24/EC (OJ No. L 131, 5.5.98, p.11) on the protection of the health and safety of workers from the risks related to chemical agents at work (fourteenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) which are applicable to risk from this source More
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These Regulations impose requirements and prohibitions with respect to the health and safety of persons carrying out work in confined spaces More
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These Regulations impose requirements for the provision of suitable head protection for and the wearing of suitable head protection by persons at work on building operations or works of engineering construction within the meaning of the Factories Act 1961 More
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These Regulations shall apply to all explosives except that regulations 7, 8, 9, 12 and 13 shall not apply to the explosives listed in Schedule 1. Regulations 7 to 9 shall not apply to smokeless powder or to ammunition the acquisition of which is regulated or prohibited by virtue of the Firearms Acts 1968 to 1988[10] More
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These Regulations revoke and replace the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2675) and revoke and re-enact, with modifications, the Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983 (S.I. 1983/1649) as amended and the Asbestos (Prohibitions) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3067) as amended More
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These Regulations re-enact, with modifications, the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/543) ("the 1998 Regulations"). The 1998 Regulations imposed requirements for the protection of employees who might be exposed to lead at work and of other persons who might be affected by such work and also imposed certain duties on employees concerning their own protection from such exposure More
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These Regulations revoke and replace the Noise at Work Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1790), and implement as respects Great Britain Directive 2003/10/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L42, 15.2.2003, p.38) on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (noise) (seventeenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC). The Regulations impose duties on employers and on self-employed persons to protect both employees who may be exposed to risk from exposure to noise at work and other persons at work who might be affected by that work More
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This Order amends the Disease Control (England) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1729) to remove the emergency measures that increase the standstill period from 6 to 20 days and disapply paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 in respect of certain movements in a sole occupancy group More
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The main purposes of the Regulation are to implement within the European Community the Rotterdam Convention on the prior informed consent (PIC) procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade signed by the Community on 11th September 1998, to establish a similar procedure for chemicals which qualify for PIC status, and to maintain in force a common export notification procedure for chemicals either banned for use or whose use is severely restricted within the Community More
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These Regulations substitute a new Schedule 1 to the Controls on Dangerous Substances and Preparations Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/3311)(“the 2006 Regulations”). In that Schedule, point 20 (arsenic compounds) is amended to give effect to Commission Directive 2006/139/EC (OJ L384, 29.12.2006, p.94). That Directive amends the restrictions set out in Annex I of Council Directive 76/769/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations (OJ L262, 27.9.1976, p.201). A minor amendment is also made to regulation 14 of the 2006 Regulations More
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These Regulations amend Schedule 1 to the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (England) Regulations 2001. They insert new paragraphs in that Schedule, declaring fuels to be authorised by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 20(6) of the Clean Air Act 1993 as follows: paragraphs 3A (Big K Instant Lighting Fire Logs), 19A (La Hacienda Easy Logs), 22A (Optima Fire Logs), 23A (Pyrobloc Fire Logs), 31A (Unicite) and 34 (which authorises a new category of Zip Firelogs). They also amend paragraphs 1 (Aimcor Excel briquettes), 2 (Aimcor Pureheat briquettes) and 20 (Long Beach Lump nuts) so that these list new manufacturers for the fuels in question More
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These Regulations impose requirements and prohibitions with respect to the health, safety and welfare of persons who work in compressed air (as defined in regulation 2) More
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These Regulations shall apply to and in relation to the premises and activities outside Great Britain to which sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 apply by virtue of the 1995 Order as they apply within Great Britain More
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These Regulations implement Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (O.J. No. L 157, 9.6.2006, p.24) on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (“the Machinery Directive”). The Machinery Directive revokes and replaces Directive 98/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to machinery (O.J. No. L 207, 23.7.98, p.1) with effect from 29 December 2009. Directive 98/37/EC was implemented in the United Kingdom by the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3063), as amended, which these Regulations revoke with effect from the same date More
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This Order makes various amendments to the framework legislation for the regulation of doctors, opticians, osteopaths and chiropractors. Many of the amendments relate to the governance arrangements for the regulatory bodies that regulate those professions. Many of the changes result either in the standardising of practice across the regulatory bodies or in bringing their practice more closely into line with each other More
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The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 shall be amended as specified in articles 4 to 20 of this Order More
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