UK Offence Report

The Merchant Shipping (Health and Safety: General Duties) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

UK Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 1396 — creates 4 criminal offences.

4offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
4 August 1988
In force from
1 September 1988
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries
Made under
Merchant Shipping Act 1979

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations amend the penalties in the Merchant Shipping (Health and Safety: General Duties) Regulations 1984. They provide that offences by an employer of contravening his general duty to ensure, so far as practicable, the health and safety of his employees may also be tried on indictment and punished by a fine or up to two years imprisonment (as an alternative to being triable summarily). The Regulations also increase the maximum of certain other fines.

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