Amendment of the Equipment and Protective Systems Intended for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

3.  The Equipment and Protective Systems Intended for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a)in regulation 2(2), for the definition of “the Department” there shall be substituted, at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, the following definition—

““the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland;”;

(b)for the references to “the Department” in regulations 10(5), 12(1), (2), (4), (5) and (8), 13(1), 14(2)(a) and 15(2) and (4)(a) and (c) and in paragraphs 1(a), 2(1) and 4 of Schedule 13 there shall be substituted references to “the Executive”;

(c)in regulation 13(1) the words “Without prejudice to the power of the Department, where it is a notified body, to charge fees pursuant to Regulations made under section 56 to the Finance Act 1973 and” and the words “other than the Department” shall be omitted.