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Regulation 3 Amendment of regulation 14 of the 2007 Regulations

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(1)

Regulation 14 of the 2007 Regulations (health surveillance)f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

After paragraph (4) insert—

“(4A)

 Where the doctor or body responsible for the health surveillance of a worker records in that worker’s individual medical record, kept pursuant to paragraph (4), that the health surveillance of the worker should continue after exposure has ended, the worker’s employer must ensure that, while the worker is employed by the employer, the health surveillance of that worker continues for as long as recommended by the doctor or body.

(4B)

The worker’s employer ceases to be under an obligation to ensure that health  surveillance continues for as long as recommended by the doctor or body when a doctor or body responsible for the health surveillance of the worker records in the worker’s individual medical record that this is no longer recommended.”

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Footnotes

f1

Contravention of, or failure to comply with, regulation 14 is an offence under regulation 17 of S.I. 2007/3100. In England and Wales, section 85(1) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10) removed the limit on a fine imposed following summary conviction so that the offence is punishable by a fine of any amount.