Regulations, 2014

L.N. 4 of 2014

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 424)

Control of Major Accident Hazards (Amendment)

Regulations, 2014

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 11(4) and 12 of

the Occupational Health and Safety Authority Act, the Minister for

Health, after consultation with the Occupational Health and Safety

Authority, has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Control of Major

Accident Hazards (Amendment) Regulations, 2014, and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Control of

Major Accident Hazards Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal regulations".

(2) The scope of these regulations is the implementation of

Article 30 of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and

of the Council amending Council Directive 96/82/EC on the control

of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances.

(3) These regulations shall come into force on the 15th

February, 2014.

Immediately after item (c) of the heading ‘Petroleum

products’ in Part 2 of Schedule I of the principal regulations, there

shall be added the following new item

"(d) heavy fuel oils".

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