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Rh Internal works traffic


 * 4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where at a place of work or at any premises to which section 4 of the 1974 Act applies a sign is used for regulating traffic on land (including pedestrians in relation to such traffic) in circumstances in which the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967(a) does not apply, then, if there is an appropriate traffic sign prescribed under that Act, shall be used: in this paragraph “traffic” does not include rail traffic.


 * (2) This Regulation shall not apply 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 applies and which is associated with a coal mine.

Duty to ensure that these Regulations are complied with
 * 5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the employer or self-employed person, as the case may be, shall ensure that these Regulations are complied with, except that where signs or colours to which these Regulations apply are at a place of work or at premises over which that employer or self-employed person has no control, the person having control of that place of work or those premises shall ensure that these Regulations are complied with.


 * (2) In the case of 2 mine or quarry, the manager shall ensure that these Regulations are complied with.

Signed by order of the Secretary of State. 3rd October 1980.

Patrick Mayhew, Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Employment.