Amendments made: No. 2, page 1, line 15, leave out '1' and insert '1(1) and (2)'.

No. 3, page 1, line 18, at end insert—

'(3A) The Department concerned (within the meaning given in Article 2(2) of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9))) may make any amendments to existing regulations that it considers necessary or expedient in consequence of the amendments made by section 1(3) and (4).

(3B) The power conferred by subsection (3A) is exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12)).

Such a rule is subject to negative resolution within the meaning of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 33 (N.I.)).'.

No. 4, page 1, line 19, leave out 'subsection (2)' and insert 'this section'.— [Keith Hill.]