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4742 (2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the Regulation in which the reference appears.

Safety signs and colours
 * 3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), a safety sign (including any colour on it) giving health or safety information or instruction to. persons at work shall comply with Part 1 of BS 5378; but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as requiring compliance with other standards referred to in that Part or with any other Part of BS 5378.


 * (2) Subject to paragraph (4). where a place at which there is a danger to the health or safety of persons at work is identified by a strip of alternate colours, those colours (including the proportion of each colour) shall comply with Part 1 of BS 5378.


 * (3) Subject to paragraph (4), a sign specified in Appendix A of Part 1 of BS 5378 shall not be used at—
 * (a) any place of work, or
 * (b) any premises to which section 4 of the 1974 Act applies (which section relates to non-domestic premises made available to persons as a place of work or as a place where they may use plant or substances provided for their use there),

except to provide the health or safety information or instruction specified beside it in the said Appendix.


 * (4) The preceding paragraphs of this Regulation shall not apply to—
 * (a) any sign or colour—
 * (i) for regulating rail, road, inland waterway, marine or air traffic including pedestrians in relation to such traffic),
 * or
 * (ii) which is in such proximity to such traffic that it might be confused with a sign or colour to which head (i) above applies,
 * or
 * (iii) relating to. any load carried by such traffic, or
 * (iv) on an aircraft or hovercraft, or
 * (v} on a vessel;
 * (b) any sign or colour at a mine which is a coal mine or at any premises on which there is a tip to which Part I of the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969(a) applies and which is associated with a coal mine;
 * (c} any sign or colour relating to fire fighting or rescue equipment or emergency exits;
 * (d) any label or marking on a package or container;
 * (e) any label or marking on an explosive article;
 * (f) any sign, colour, label or marking, as the case may be, used in simulating for training purposes any circumstances in which any of the preceding sub-paragraphs of this paragraph apply:
 * (g) any use of an emblem or design authorised for the time being under section 6 of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (b).