- Enforced by
- HSENI
- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 6 of 20 obligations carry up to 2 years imprisonment. 14 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Other Acts binding the same actors
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Employer — also bound by 701 other Acts
Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts
Employee — also bound by 193 other Acts
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
- Provisionally classify biological agents without approved classificationEmployer
- Apply correct containment measures for biological agents in labs, animal rooms, and industrial processesEmployer
- Keep list of employees exposed to high-risk biological agentsEmployer
- Notify HSENI before first using higher-risk biological agentsEmployer
- Notify HSENI before consigning Group 4 biological agents to other premisesEmployer
- Extend hazardous-substance duties to protect non-employees and the publicEmployer
- Do not supply or use prohibited hazardous substancesAny Person
- Assess and manage risks from hazardous substancesEmployer
- Prevent or control exposure to hazardous substancesEmployer
- Ensure hazardous substance controls are properly used and reportedEmployer
- Maintain, test, and record checks on hazardous substance control measuresEmployer
- Monitor employee exposure to hazardous substancesEmployer
- Provide health surveillance for employees exposed to hazardous substancesEmployer
- Provide information, instruction and training on hazardous substancesEmployee
- Create emergency plans for hazardous substance accidentsEmployer
- Notify relevant persons and display warnings before certain fumigationsEmployer
10 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Schedules
4 of 19 shown- Classify biological agents by risk groupEmployer
- Notify authorities before carrying out a fumigationAny Person
- Notify harbour authority and other bodies before fumigation in harbour areasAny Person
- Provide complete fumigation notification detailsAny Person
15 other schedules
Help complying
Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.
2 more guides that reference this instrument
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.