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Regulation 30 Additional provisions in the case of exceptions and exemptionsF1I1

Northern Ireland

(1)

Where under an exception in Schedule 3 or an exemption granted pursuant to regulation 31 or regulation 32 asbestos is used in a work process or is produced by a work process, the employer shall ensure that the quantity of asbestos and materials containing asbestos at the premises where the work is carried out is reduced to as low a level as is reasonably practicable.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), where under an exception in Schedule 3 or an exemption granted pursuant to regulation 31 or regulation 32 a manufacturing process which gives rise to asbestos dust is carried out in a building, the employer shall ensure that any part of the building in which the process is carried out is—

(a)

so designed and constructed as to facilitate cleaning; and

(b)

is equipped with an adequate and suitable vacuum cleaning system which shall, where reasonably practicable, be a fixed system.

(3)

Paragraph 2(a) shall not apply to a building in which, prior to 25th April 1988, there was carried out a process to which either—

(a)

as then in operation, regulation 13 of the Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1969f1 applied and the process was carried out in compliance with that regulation; or

(b)

that regulation did not apply.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations revoked with savings (28.5.2012) by The Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/179), reg. 33(1) (with regs. 3(5), 33(3))

Commencement

I1

Reg. 30 in operation at 1.3.2007, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1

1969 No. 337—revoked by S.R. 1988 No. 74