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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Miscellaneous provisions - Regulations, exemptions, approved codes of practice, and safe work instruments - Regulations

218: Further provisions relating to regulations

You could also call this:

“Additional rules for making and applying workplace safety regulations”

Regulations made under this Act can do many things. They can give you similar or extra duties related to the same things the Act covers. These regulations can apply to everyone or just some people. They can be different based on when, where, or how they’re used. The regulations can also stop you from doing certain things.

The rules can be different for people of different ages or health conditions. They might only apply to people of a certain age or health status. The regulations can also be different for various types of people, workplaces, equipment, buildings, materials, or kinds of risks.

When making these regulations, they can set things up by referring to other methods, values, or tools. They can also refer to rules in other Acts, regulations, or documents.

If the regulations give someone the power to decide something or let matters be determined or approved by a person, this doesn’t make the regulations invalid.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Regulations, exemptions, approved codes of practice, and safe work instruments: Regulations

218Further provisions relating to regulations

  1. Regulations made under this Act may—

  2. impose similar or additional duties on a person in relation to the same circumstances or matters as this Act does:
    1. be of general or limited application:
      1. differ according to differences in time, place, or circumstance, or any other basis:
        1. impose prohibitions:
          1. apply differently to people of a differing age or health status, and may apply only to people of a particular age or health status:
            1. apply differently to different classes of person, workplace, plant, structure, substance, or kind of risk:
              1. prescribe, set, or provide for any thing by reference to any methodology, value, or similar tool (however described) or by reference to controls in other Acts, regulations, or instruments.

                1. Regulations made under this Act are not invalid merely because they confer any discretion on, or allow any matter to be determined or approved by, any person.

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