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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
This Order revokes the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 1977 and the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) (Variation) Order 1989 and re-enacts with modifications the provisions of those Orders. The effect of this Order is to apply sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 to offshore installations as defined in article 4(2) of this Order) outside Great Britain and pipelines within territorial waters and areas designated under the Continental Shelf Act 1964 and to certain work activities in connection with those installations and pipelines.
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Last updated:
6 February 2015
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
These Regulations give to certain trainees who are not employees the protection for and duties of employees under the relevant statutory provisions as defined in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
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Last updated:
4 February 2015
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
This Order has the effect of renewing for a second time the Upper Spey and Associated Waters Protection Order 1982 which prohibited fishing for or taking freshwater fish in inland waters in the area prescribed in that Order without legal right or without written permission from someone having such a right. The effect of the renewal is that the prohibition has effect from 15th March 1988 to 6th October 1990.
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Last updated:
4 February 2015
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Welsh Statutory Instrument
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.
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Last updated:
1 December 2014
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Welsh Statutory Instrument
Sections 118B and 119B of the Highways Act 1980 (“the 1980 Act”) were inserted by paragraphs 8 and 12 of Schedule 6 to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 respectively. They enable orders to be made to stop up (by a “special extinguishment order”) and divert (by a “special diversion order”) certain highways for the purposes of crime prevention or for the protection of pupils or staff of schools.
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Last updated:
28 November 2014
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Welsh Statutory Instrument
These Regulations prescribe, in relation to Wales, the form of notices to be served under sections 130A, 130B and 130C of the Highways Act 1980 (“the Act”). These sections were inserted into the Act by section 63 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.
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Last updated:
26 November 2014
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Welsh Statutory Instrument
Section 20 of the Clean Air Act 1993 (“the Act”) provides that where smoke is emitted from a chimney in a smoke control area, and that chimney is either—a chimney of a building; ora chimney serving the furnace of a fixed boiler or industrial plant (not being a chimney of a building),
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Last updated:
25 November 2014
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
This Order, which comes into force on 1st April 2000, amends Groups 12 and 15 of Schedule 8 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c. 23) (“the Act”).
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24 September 2014
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
This Order confers the legal capacities of a body corporate on the International Copper Study Group. This legal capacity is conferred in accordance with paragraph 14(a) of the Terms of Reference of the International Copper Study Group (Terms of Reference) (Cm.3993). The Order will enable Her Majesty’s Government to give effect to paragraph 14(a) of the Terms of Reference, and will come into force on the date on which the Terms of Reference enter into force in respect of the United Kingdom.
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Last updated:
21 August 2014
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Scottish Statutory Instrument
These Regulations give further effect, in Scotland, to Council Directive 94/33/EC on the protection of young people at work (O.J. L216 20.8.94 p.12). Regulation 2(1) amends section 28 of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 (“the Act”), raising to thirteen the minimum age at which children may be authorised by local authority byelaws to be employed in light agricultural or horticultural work. Regulation 2(2) amends section 30 of the Act so that local authority byelaws authorising children to take part in street trading must contain provisions determining the days and hours during which, and the places at which, they may do so. Regulation 2(3) amends section 33 of the Act so that only persons aged at least sixteen and who are also over compulsory school age may take part in performances of a dangerous nature.
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Last updated:
15 July 2014