paragraph (1) may include requirements concerning that workplace or those employees; but before including any such requirements the enforcing authority must consult the enforcing authority for that workplace.
(5) Before serving an enforcement notice which would oblige a person to make an alteration to premises, the enforcing authority must consult—
- (a) in cases where the relevant local authority is not the enforcing authority, the relevant local authority;
- (b) in the case of premises used as a workplace which are within the field of responsibility of one or more enforcing authorities within the meaning of Part 1 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974(a)[1], that authority or those authorities; and section 18(7) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (meaning in Part I of that Act of “enforcing authority” and of such an authority’s “field of responsibility”) applies for the purposes of this article as it applies for the purposes of that Part;
- (c) in the case of a building or structure in relation to all or any part of which an initial notice given under section 47 of the Building Act 1984(b)[2] is in force, the approved inspector who gave that initial notice;
- (d) in the case of premises which are, include, or form part of, a designated sports ground or a sports ground at which there is a regulated stand, the relevant local authority, where that authority is not the enforcing authority; and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, “sports ground” and “designated sports ground” have the same meaning as in the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and “regulated stand” has the same meaning as in the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987;
- (e) any other person whose consent to the alteration would be required by or under any enactment.
(6) Without prejudice to the power of the court to cancel or modify an enforcement notice under article 35(2), no failure on the part of an enforcing authority to consult under paragraphs (4) or (5) makes an enforcement notice void.
(7) Where an enforcement notice has been served under paragraph (1)—
- (a) the enforcing authority may withdraw the notice at any time before the end of the period specified in the notice; and
- (b) if an appeal against the notice is not pending, the enforcing authority may extend or further extend the period specified in the notice.
Prohibition notices
31.—(1) If the enforcing authority is of the opinion that use of premises involves or will involve a risk to relevant persons so serious that use of the premises ought to be prohibited or restricted, the authority may serve on the responsible person or any other person mentioned in article 5(3) a notice (in this Order referred to as “a prohibition notice”).
(2) The matters relevant to the assessment by the enforcing authority, for the purposes of paragraph (1), of the risk to relevant persons include anything affecting their escape from the premises in the event of fire.
(3) A prohibition notice must—
- (a) state that the enforcing authority is of the opinion referred to in paragraph (1);
- (b) specify the matters which in their opinion give or, as the case may be, will give rise to that risk; and
- (c) direct that the use to which the prohibition notice relates is prohibited or restricted to such extent as may be specified in the notice until the specified matters have been remedied.
- ↑ (a) 1974 c. 37.
- ↑ (b) 1984 c. 55. Section 47 was amended by S.I. 1996/1905.
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