SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Transfer of safety functions

Co-operation with the HSC

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1

It shall be the duty of the F2Office of Rail and Road and the Health and Safety Commission—

a

as soon as practicable after the commencement of this paragraph, to enter into arrangements with each other for securing co-operation and the exchange of information in connection with the carrying out of safety functions;

b

to maintain and from time to time to review those arrangements; and

c

to revise them whenever they consider it appropriate to do so.

2

In sub-paragraph (1) “safety functions” means all the functions of F1... the Health and Safety Executive and the safety functions of the F2Office of Rail and Road.

3

In section 18(5)(b) of the 1974 Act (duty of enforcing authority to act in accordance with guidance of HSC), at the beginning insert “ except where that authority is the Office of Rail Regulation, ”.