What implications the new regulations to amend the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and the Fire Precautions (Workp…

Answered Asked by Jackie Baillie Lab Lodged 21 Oct 2003

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what implications the new regulations to amend the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 will have for Scotland.

The answer

Answered by Hugh Henry on 23 Oct 2003 · 2 days after it was lodged, on time

The regulations (SI2003/2457) to amend the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations1999 and the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 were made by the UKGovernment on 24 September 2003 and will come into force on 27 October 2003.Scottish ministers agreed previously that these regulations should be amended forScotland, and they will now come into force here as in the rest of the UK.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-03542 by reference.