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OFFICE AND SHOP PREMISES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 5

Overcrowding.

5.(1) No room comprised in, or constituting, premises to which this Act
applies shall, while work is going on therein, be so overcrowded as to cause
risk of injury to the health of persons working therein; and in determining,
for the purposes of this subsection, whether any such room is so overcrowded
as aforesaid, regard shall be had (amongst other things) not only to the
number of persons who may be expected to be working in the room at any time
but also to the space in the room occupied by furniture, furnishings,
fittings, machinery, plant, equipment, appliances and other things (whether
similar to any of those aforesaid or not).

(2) The number of persons habitually employed at a time to work in such a room
as aforesaid shall not be such that the quotient derived by dividing by that
number the number which expresses in square feet the area of the surface of
the floor of the room is less than forty or the quotient derived by dividing
by the first-mentioned number the number which expresses in cubic feet the
capacity of the room is less than four hundred.

(3) Subsection (2)

(a)shall not prejudice the general obligation imposed by subsection (1);

(b)shall not apply to a room to which members of the public are invited to
resort; and

(c)shall not, in the case of a room comprised in, or constituting, premises of
any class (being a room which at the passing of this Act is comprised in, or
constitutes, premises to which this Act applies), have effect until the
expiration of the period of three years beginning with the day on which
subsection (1) comes into force as respects premises of that class.


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