# The Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007, Regulation 30: Additional provisions in the case of exceptions and exemptions

Extent: N.I.

(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) 1969 applied and the process was carried out in compliance with that regulation; or
(b) that regulation did not apply.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/31/regulation/30 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-30
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