S.L. 646.27 Art. 1Citation, scope and applicability. S.L. 646.11.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Health and

Safety at Work (Minimum Health and Safety Requirements for Work at Construction Sites) Regulations.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to establish the minimum health and safety requirements for work at construction sites and to implement amongst others the requirements of Council Directive 92/57/EEC.

(3) These regulations shall not apply to drilling and extraction in the extractive industries including the activities of prospecting and of extraction in the strict sense of the word as well as of preparation of extracting materials for sale (crushing, screening, washing) but they shall apply to the processing of such extracted material.

(4) The provisions of the General Provisions for Health and

Safety at Work Places Regulations shall be applicable mutatis to these regulations, without prejudice to more stringent and, mutandis or specific provisions contained in these regulations.