Following the promulgation of the new Construction Regulations on the 7 February 2014, The Department of Labour has issued an all-inclusive exemption for construction work. See notice below. The notice was issued at 14:00 on 7 March 2014 and is with immediate effect. Under section 40(3)(b) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 (Act No. 85 of 1993), I, Thobile Lamati, appointed as chief inspector in terms of section 27(1) of the said Act, and by virtue of the powers delegated to me by the Minister of Labour, in terms of section 42(1) of the said Act, hereby grant the following temporary exemptions in terms of section 40 of the said Act: 1. All construction works where physical construction started after the 7th of February 2014 must comply with the Construction Regulations 2003, and such construction works are exempted to comply with the Construction Regulations 2014 until the 7th August 2014, 6 months after the commencement of these Regulations, thereafter the Construction Regulations 2014 shall apply with the exception of Regulation 3 and 5 (7)(b) which will come into effect on the 7th August 2015, 18 months after the commencement of these Regulations. 2. All construction works where physical construction had started on or before the 7th of February 2014 must comply with the Construction Regulations 2003, and such construction works are exempted to comply with Construction Regulations 2014 until the 6th August 2015 and thereafter the Construction Regulations 2014 shall apply. In short what this means is that any new construction projects starting after the 7th of February will be governed by the OLD Construction Regulations until August 2014, and any projects that were started before 7th February 2014 will continue to be controlled by the OLD regulations until August 2015. Please feel free to contact us should you have any further questions in this regard.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:30:51 +0000
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