2. The Secretary of State shall be the authority responsible for the enforcement of the following relevant statutory provisions:
(a)section 5 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974(1), and
(b)the Alkali, Works Regulation Act 1906(2) (“the 1906 Act”).
Section 5 imposes a duty on persons having control of premises of a class prescribed for the purposes of section 1(1)(d) of the 1974 Act; classes of premises are prescribed for those purposes by S.I. 1983/943.
1906 c. 14; the Control of Pollution Act 1974 (c. 40) repealed sections 3, 4, 5, 8, 12(1)(d), 14, 15, 17, 18(4) and 19, repealed in part sections 9(1), 18(1) and 22(1), and amended section 27(1); S.I. 1974/2170 repealed sections 11, 12, 13, 18, 20 and 21 and amended section 27(1); S.I. 1983/943 repealed sections 6 and 7 and Schedule 1 and amended sections 1, 2, 9(1) and (5), 16 and 27(1); the Local Government Act 1972(c. 70) amended section 27(1).