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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Safety Inquiries (Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 1976 and shall come into operation on 6th September 1976.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
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The Health and Safety Inquiries (Procedure) Regulations 1975 shall be amended as follows:—
(a) in Regulation 2(1)—
(i) in the definition of “appointed person” omit the words “or by the appropriate Agriculture Minister, as the case may be,”;
(ii) omit the definition of “the appropriate Agriculture Minister”.
(b) in Regulation 3—
(i) in paragraph (1), omit the words “or under that provision as modified in relation to agriculture by section 32 of and Schedule 4 to that Act”;
(ii) omit paragraph (2).
Signed by order of the Secretary of State.
John Grant
Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Employment
30th July 1976