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        Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (No. 1039 (NI 9))
        Introductory Text
        Main body
        PART I INTRODUCTORY
        1. Title and commencement
        2. Interpretation
        PART II HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE IN CONNECTION WITH WORK, AND CONTROL OF DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES
        Preliminary
        3. Preliminary
        General duties
        4. General duties of employers to their employees
        5. General duties of employers and self-employed to persons other than their employees
        6. General duties of persons concerned with premises to persons other than their employees
        7. General duties of manufacturers etc. as regards articles and substances for use at work
        8. General duties of employees at work
        9. Duty not to interfere with or misuse things provided pursuant to certain provisions
        10. Duty not to charge employees for things done or provided pursuant to certain specific requirements
        11. General duty of the Department concerned
        The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland
        12. Establishment of the Executive
        13. Functions of the Executive
        14. Control of the Executive by the Department
        15. Additional functions of the Executive
        Investigations and inquiries
        16. Investigations and inquiries
        Health and safety regulations and approved codes of practice
        17. Health and safety regulations
        18. Approval of codes of practice by the Executive
        19. Use of approved codes of practice in criminal proceedings
        Enforcement
        20. Authorities responsible for enforcement of the relevant statutory provisions
        21. Appointment of inspectors
        22. Powers of inspectors
        23. Improvement notices
        24. Prohibition notices
        25. Provisions supplementary to Articles 23 and 24
        26. Appeal against improvement or prohibition notice
        27. Power to deal with cause of imminent danger
        27A. Power of customs officer to detain articles and substances
        28. Power of enforcing authorities to indemnify their inspectors
        Obtaining and disclosure of information
        29. Obtaining of information
        29A. Information communicated by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs
        30. Restrictions on disclosure of information
        Provisions as to offences
        31. Offences
        32. Extension of time for bringing summary proceedings
        33. Venue
        34. Offences due to fault of other person
        34A. Offences by bodies corporate
        35. Restriction on institution of proceedings
        36. Prosecutions by inspectors
        37. Onus of proving limits of what is practicable etc.
        38. Evidence
        39. Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied and, in certain cases, forfeiture
        Financial provisions
        40. Financial provisions
        Miscellaneous and supplementary
        41. Representations in connection with licensing provisions in the relevant statutory provisions
        42. Default powers
        43. Civil liability
        44. Application to Crown
        45. Adaptation of enactments to metric units or appropriate metric units
        46. Regulations under the relevant statutory provisions
        47. Exclusion of application to domestic employment
        47A. Application of Part to police
        PART III THE EMPLOYMENT MEDICAL ADVISORY SERVICE
        48. The employment medical advisory service
        49. Fees
        50. Supplementary
        51. Amendment of the Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965
        PART IV MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
        {Art. 52 rep. by 2004 c. 17}
        53. Application to explosives
        54. General power to repeal or modify statutory provisions
        55. Regulations
        {Art.56(1), with Schedule 6, effects amendments; para.(2), with Schedule 7, effects repeals; par...}
        Schedules
        SCHEDULE 1 EXISTING STATUTORY PROVISIONS
        SCHEDULE 2 THE HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
        SCHEDULE 3 SUBJECT-MATTER OF HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS
        {Schedule 4 rep. by 1998 NI 18}
        SCHEDULE 5 THE FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 (c.20)
        {Parts I (paras.1-4), II (paras.5-11)-Amendments}
        PART III TRANSITIONAL PROVISION
        {Schedule 6-Amendments}
        {Schedule 7-Repeals}

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