Cap. 646 Art. 45Power to make regulations.

(1) The Minister may make regulations for safeguarding health and safety at work, for determining the precautions to be taken for this purpose and generally for the purpose of carrying into operation any of the provisions of this Act, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Minister may make regulations:

(a) prescribing anything that is required or authorised by this Act to be prescribed;

(b) concerning the testing, examination and the certificates or seals of approval of any equipment, machinery, device, article or thing used or intended to be used in a workplace;

(c) on the importation, presence, use, handling of, or exposure to any chemical, biological or physical agent, or a combination thereof, which may be used at the workplace;

(d) on the methods, standards or procedures for determining the amount, concentration or level of any physical, chemical or biological agent in a workplace;

(e) concerning the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to chemical, physical and biological agents at the workplace;

(f) on the notification, reporting and investigation of deaths, diseases, injuries or other accidents or incidents involving health and safety in a workplace;

(g) on the hours a worker may be required to work;

(h) relating to the safety of any equipment, machinery, device, material, chemicals, process, article or thing whatsoever used or intended to be used in a workplace;

(i) relating to the right of a worker to refuse to work or to do a particular work, the circumstances in which, and the conditions under which the said right is exercisable;

(j) prescribing or altering the procedure to be used for an appeal to be made to the Tribunal and to regulate the procedure to be used by the Tribunal;

(k) regulating the assignment and delegation of duties in accordance with the Act by an employer to any person, when the employer is a body corporate. The said regulations shall determine the responsibilities of such person being delegated or assigned such duties in accordance with the Act. Such regulations shall furthermore be drafted and interpreted consistently with the terms of European Union legislation regulating health and safety at work;

(l) on any other matter related to health and safety at work; and, or

(m) determine the qualifications, standards and other requirements necessary to perform any task relating to the safeguard of health and safety at work.

(2) Without prejudice to any matter aforesaid, regulations made by virtue of this article may also:

(a) distinguish between different classes of work places, different classes of work and between different classes of workers, and may also make other distinctions as may be deemed appropriate;

(b) prohibit, regulate, restrict, limit or control any matter in respect of which regulations may be made; and

(c) empower the Authority to require a licence, certificate or other requirements in respect of any matter for which regulations may be made and to levy fees or other charges in respect thereof, or in respect of any service provided by the Authority.