The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Metrication etc.) Regulations 1992

PART I[METRICATION AND REVOCATIONS OF MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS]

Interpretation

2.  In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires, “the principal instruments” means the Acts referred to in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 1 to these Regulations and the Orders and Regulations referred to in column 1 of Part II of that Schedule.

Amendments to the principal instruments to substitute metric measurements for imperial measurements

3.—(1) The provisions of the principal instruments specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations in column 1 (the subject matter of which is described in column 2) shall be amended by substituting for the measurements or expressions set out opposite thereto in column 3, the measurements or expressions set out in the corresponding entry in column 4.

(2) For the Schedule to the Cotton Cloth Factories Regulations 1929(1) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Application to existing plant, buildings and other permanent structures

4.  Where the measurements relating to any plant, buildings or other permanent structure in existence or under construction immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations complied with the requirements of the principal instruments as then in force in so far as they related to the measurements of that plant, building or other permanent structure, then such compliance shall be deemed to be compliance with the principal instruments as amended by these Regulations.

Revocations

5.—(1) The Order dated 30th December 1903 modifying the proportion of cubic feet of space to be provided in certain bakehouses (The Modification of Space in Bakehouses Order 1903)(2) shall be revoked.

(2) Article 4 of the Notification of Employment of Persons Order 1964(3) (which specifies the size of the form to be used for notification) shall be revoked.