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United Kingdom 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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6 October 2016
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
These Regulations give further effect, in England and Wales, to Council Directive 94/33/EC on the protection of young people at work (O.J. L216 of 20.8.94, page 12). Article 17(1)(b) provided a derogation to Article 8(1)(b), (maximum number of hours which may be worked by children in term time). This derogation has come to an end and these Regulations give full effect to this Article. Regulation 2 amends section 18 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, to place a limit on the number of hours that a child may be employed in any week in which they are required to attend shcool.
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5 October 2016
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
These Regulations give further effect, in England and Wales, to Council Directive 94/33/EC on the protection of young people at work (O.J. L216 of 20th August 1994, page 12). Regulation 2(1) amends section 18 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, 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 20 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 23 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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5 October 2016
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
This Order amends the Medicines (Control of Substances for Manufacture) Orders 1971 and 1985, limiting the application of those Orders to substances for veterinary use. Those Orders extend the application of specified provisions of the Medicines Act 1968 to certain substances which are not themselves medicinal products but which are used as ingredients in the manufacture of medicinal products.
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Last updated:
26 September 2016
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
This Order, which comes into force on 1st January 1998, amends Group 12 of Schedule 8 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994.
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Last updated:
15 September 2016
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Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
These Regulations give the protection for and duties of employees under the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (“the 1978 Order”) and the other relevant statutory provisions to those who are provided with “relevant training” as defined in regulation 2. “Relevant statutory provisions” is defined in Article 2(2) of the 1978 Order.
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Last updated:
13 September 2016
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Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
These Regulations amend the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. 2003 No. 34) by adding –a definition of “mutagen” to regulation 2(1) and amending references in regulations 7 and 13 to “carcinogen” to include “mutagen” thereby implementing paragraphs 2 to 4 of article 1 of Council Directive 1999/38/EC (O.J. No. L138, 1.6.1999, p. 66) amending for the second time Council Directive 90/394/EEC (O.J. No. L196, 26.7.90, p. 1) on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens at work; and17 polychlorodibenzodioxins and polychlorodibenzofurans to the list of substances in Schedule 1 to which the definition of “carcinogen” relates.
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Last updated:
7 September 2016
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Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
These Regulations provide for further implementation as respects Northern Ireland, of Articles 10, 11 and 12 of Council Directive 89/391/EEC (“the Framework Directive”, O.J. No. L183, 29.6.89, p. 1) on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the health and safety of employees at work. The Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 (S.R. 1979 No. 437 as amended by S.R. 1992 No. 459) (“the 1979 Regulations”) already implement those Articles in cases where employees are represented by safety representatives appointed by a trade union recognised by their employer. These Regulations require employers to consult either their employees directly or representatives elected by their employees where there are employees not represented by safety representatives appointed by trade unions under the 1979 Regulations. The need for this further implementation of those Articles in the Framework Directive arises from the judgement of the European Court of Justice in cases C382/92 and C383/92, Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ([1994] I.C.R. 664) which, although the judgement was in respect of other Directives, established the principle that rights to consultation had to be accorded to all employees and could not be limited to those employees who were represented by a trade union recognised by their employer.
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Last updated:
6 September 2016
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Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
These Regulations amend the Control of Asbestos in Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 which require the Department of the Environment (“the Department”) to reduce and prevent, as far as reasonably practicable, emissions of asbestos into the aquatic environment. The amendment requires the Department to monitor at regular intervals any discharge into the aquatic environment which may contain asbestos.
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Last updated:
6 September 2016
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Scottish Statutory Instrument
Section 20 of the Clean Air Act 1993 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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30 August 2016