OFFICE AND SHOP PREMISES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966

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OFFICE AND SHOP PREMISES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 51



51.(1) It shall be the duty of every [district council] to enforce within [its
district] ... the foregoing provisions of this Act and regulations thereunder

(a)except sections 28 to 38 and regulations under any of them; and

(b)except, as regards any other section or regulations, in a case for which
provision for the enforcement of that section or those regulations is made by
the following provisions of this section;

(2) It shall be the duty of the fire authority ... to enforce ... (and for
that purpose to appoint inspectors) sections 28 to 38 and regulations under
any of those sections, subject, however, to the following qualifications:

(a)[it] shall not have the duty to enforce those sections and regulations with
respect to premises falling within subsection (3);

(b)[it] shall not have the duty to enforce, with respect to premises falling
within subsection (4), section 33, 34 or 36, regulations under section 37,
section 38(1) or regulations under section 38(2).

(3) The foregoing provisions of this Act and regulations thereunder shall, as
regards,

(a)02premises comprised in premises used for the purposes of an educational
establishment (including a school or an institution of further education) [or
for the purposes of a library which in either case is under the management of
an education and library board within the meaning of the Education and
Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1972];

(c)premises occupied by [the fire authority] ...;

(4) The foregoing provisions of this Act and regulations thereunder (except
sections 28, 29 and 30 and regulations under section 35) shall, as regards

(a)premises which are not, for the purposes of the Factories Act, a factory
but which, but for the operation of section 175(6) of that Act, would, for the
purposes of that Act, form part of a factory, not being premises contained in
office or shop premises;

[(b)office premises erected at, or adjacent to, a place where there are
carried on operations to which section 125(1) of the Factories Act (Northern
Ireland) 1965 applies or works to which that section applies, being premises
erected for the purpose of, or in connection with, the operation or works];

(c)premises which, but for the following provisions of this Act, would, for
the purposes of section 121(1), 122(1) or 123(1) of the Factories Act, form
part of premises to which, as the case may be, the said section 121(1), the
said section 122(1) or the said section 123(1) applies, but not including such
a building or part of a building as, by virtue of those provisions, is
excluded from the said section 123(1);

(d)office or shop premises which, for the purposes of
the enactments for the regulation of mines and quarries, form part of a mine
or quarry,

Power of fire authority authorities to indemnify its inspectors.

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OFFICE AND SHOP PREMISES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 51