Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 1462
The Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards (Amendment) Regulations 1988
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1988 No. 1462
HEALTH AND SAFETY
The Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards (Amendment) Regulations 1988
| Laid before Parliament | 26th August 1988 |
| Coming into force | 21st September 1988 |
The Secretary of State, being the designated ([1]) Minister for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 ([2]) in relation to measures relating to the prevention and limitation of the effects of accidents arising from industrial activities involving dangerous substances, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 2 and by sections 15(1), (2) and 82(3)(a) of, and paragraphs 1(1)(b) and (c) and (2), 15(1) and 20 of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974([3]) ("the 1974 Act") and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and for the purpose of giving effect without modifications to proposals submitted to him by the Health and Safety Commission under section 11(2)(d) of the 1974 Act after the carrying out by the said Commission of consultations in accordance with section 50(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards (Amendment) Regulations 1988, and shall come into force on 21st September 1988.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1984([4]).
Amendments
3. Schedules 2, 3 and 4 to the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with Parts I, II and III respectively of Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
Application of the principal Regulations
4. Where an industrial activity becomes subject to regulations 7 to 12 of the principal Regulations in consequence of an amendment made by regulation 3 above, then in relation to that activity the principal Regulations shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
Signed by order of the Secretary of State
Patrick Nicholls
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Employment
16th August 1988
Notes:[1] S.I. 1983/603.
[2] 1972 c. 68.
[3] 1974 c. 37; sections 15 and 50 were amended by the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Schedule 15, paragraphs 6 and 16 respectively.
[4] S.I. 1984/1902, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
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