OFFICE AND SHOP PREMISES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966

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OFFICE AND SHOP PREMISES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 6

Temperature.

6.(1) Effective provision shall be made for securing and maintaining a
reasonable temperature in every room comprised in, or constituting, premises
to which this Act applies, being a room in which persons are employed to work
otherwise than for short periods, but no method shall be used which results in
the escape into the air of any such room of any fume of such a character and
to such extent as to be likely to be injurious or offensive to persons working
therein.

(2) Where a substantial proportion of the work done in a room to which
subsection (1) applies does not involve severe physical effort, a temperature
of less than 16 degrees Centigrade (which is equivalent to 60.8 degrees
Fahrenheit) shall not be deemed, after the first hour, to be a reasonable
temperature while work is going on.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) shall not apply

(a)to a room which comprises, or is comprised in or constitutes,
office premises, being a room to which members of the public are invited to
resort, and in which the maintenance of a reasonable temperature is not
reasonably practicable; or

(b)to a room which comprises, or is comprised in or constitutes,
shop premises, being a room in which the maintenance of a reasonable
temperature is not reasonably practicable or would cause deterioration of
goods;

(4) In premises to which this Act applies there shall, on each floor on which
there is a room to which subsection (1) applies, be provided in a conspicuous
place and in such a position as to be easily seen by the persons employed to
work in the premises on that floor a thermometer of a kind suitable for
enabling the temperature in any such room on that floor to be readily
determined; and a thermometer provided in pursuance of this subsection shall
be kept available for use by those persons for that purpose.

Subs.(5) rep. by SR 1979/284

(6) It shall be the duty of the employer of persons for whom means of enabling
them to warm themselves are provided in pursuance of subsection (3) to afford
them reasonable opportunities for using those means, and if he fails so to do
he shall be guilty of an offence.

(7) In this section "fume" includes gas or vapour.

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OFFICE AND SHOP PREMISES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 6