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OFFICE AND SHOP PREMISES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 13

Sitting facilities.

13.(1) Where persons who are employed to work in office or shop premises have,
in the course of their work, reasonable opportunities for sitting without
detriment to it, there shall be provided for their use, at suitable places
conveniently accessible to them, suitable facilities for sitting sufficient to
enable them to take advantage of those opportunities.

(2) Where persons are employed to work in a room which comprises, or is
comprised in or constitutes, shop premises, being a room whereto customers are
invited to resort, and have in the course of their work, reasonable
opportunities for sitting without detriment to it, facilities provided for
their use in pursuance of subsection (1) shall be deemed not to be sufficient
if the number of seats provided and the number of the persons employed are in
less ratio than 1 to 3.

(3) It shall be the duty of the employer of persons for whose use facilities
are provided in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this section to
permit them to use them whenever the use thereof does not interfere with their
work, and if he fails so to do he shall be guilty of an offence.

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