Control of Major Accident Hazards

L.N. 122 of 2020

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 424)

Control of Major Accident Hazards

(Amendment) Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 12 of the

Occupational Health and Safety Authority Act, the Minister

responsible for Health, after consultation with the Occupational Health

and Safety Authority, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Control of Major Citation

Accident Hazards (Amendment) Regulations, 2020, and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Control of S.L. 424.19.

Major Accident Hazards Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal regulations".

Paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) of regulation 5 of the Amends

regulation 5 of

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

"(a) for new establishments, a reasonable period of time

prior to the start of construction or operation, or prior to the

modifications leading to a change in the inventory of dangerous

substances;".

Paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) of regulation 6 of the Amends

regulation 6 of

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

"(a) for new establishments, a reasonable period of time

prior to the start of construction or operation, or prior to the

modifications leading to a change in the inventory of dangerous

substances;".

Paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3) of regulation 8 of the Amends

regulation 8 of

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

"(a) for new establishments, a reasonable period of time

prior to the start of construction or operation, or prior to the

modifications leading to a change in the inventory of dangerous

substances;".

Paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) of regulation 10 of the Amends

regulation 10 of

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

"(a) for new establishments, a reasonable period of time

prior to the start of construction or operation, or prior to the

modifications leading to a change in the inventory of dangerous

substances;".

Immediately after sub-regulation (8) of regulation 14 of the

principal regulations there shall be added the following new sub-

regulations

"(9) The competent authority shall accept equivalent

information submitted by operators in accordance with other

relevant Union legislation, which fulfils any of the requirements

of these regulations for the purposes of these regulations. In such

cases the competent authority shall ensure that the requirements

of these regulations are complied with.

(10) The competent authority shall take steps to provide

mechanisms and tools for exchanging experience and

consolidating knowledge, and to participate in such mechanisms

at Union level where appropriate.".

Paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3) of regulation 19 of the

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following

"(b) The Environment and Resources Authority shall be

the enforcing authority for the provisions relating to the

environment, at an establishment to which any of these

regulations apply.".

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