Health and Safety (Emissions into the Atmosphere) (Amendment) Regulations 1989
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1989No. 319
HEALTH AND SAFETY
The Health and Safety (Emissions into the Atmosphere)
(Amendment) Regulations 1989
2ndMarch1989
9thMarch1989
31stMarch1989
The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1(1)(d), 5(3), 15(1) and 53(1) ( a) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974( b) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and after consulting, in accordance with section 50(1) of that Act( c), the Health and Safety Commission and such other bodies as it appeared to them to be appropriate to consult, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Safety (Emissions into the Atmosphere) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 31st March 1989.
(2) In these Regulations, "the principal Regulations" means the Health and Safety (Emissions into the Atmosphere) Regulations 1983( d).
Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations
2. In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (List of Works)-
(a) the paragraph headed "Chemical incineration works" shall be omitted;(b) the following shall be substituted for the paragraph headed "Asbestos works"-" Asbestos works
Works in which-
(a) raw asbestos ore is produced, but excluding any process directly associated with the mining of the ore; or(a) See the definition of "prescribed".
(b) 1974 c.37; section 15(1) was substituted by the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c.71), Schedule 15, paragraph 6.
(c) Section 50(1) was substituted by the Employment Protection Act 1975, Schedule 15, paragraph 16(1).
(d) S.I. 1983/943.
(b) asbestos is used in the manufacture and industrial finishing of-(i) asbestos cement,(ii) asbestos cement products,(iii) asbestos fillers,(iv) asbestos filters,(v) asbestos floor coverings,(vi) asbestos friction products,(vii) asbestos insulating board,(viii) asbestos jointing, packaging and reinforcement materials,(ix) asbestos packing,(x) asbestos paper and card, or(xi) asbestos textiles; or(c) crocidolite is stripped from railway vehicles other than as part of repair or maintenance or during vehicle recovery after an accident; or(d) railway vehicles containing crocidolite are destroyed by burning at purpose built installations.For the purposes of this...
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