§ Mr. Cryerasked the Secretary of State of Employment, pursuant to the reply to the hon. Member for Keighley of 20 May, if the written instrument, a warrant, specifies the particular regulations which the health and safety inspector is entitled to apply or whether a member of the nuclear inspectorate is entitled to enforce the application of agricultural regulations and vice versa; and, if so, how an occupier of premises subject to an inspection is able to distinguish one from another.
§ Mr. Mayhew[pursuant to his reply, 3 June 1980, c. 684]: The warrant issued to a health and safety inspector does not specify particular regulations. The warrant specifies the powers inspectors are entitled to exercise, which are conferred on them by the relevant statutory provisions. The majority of inspectors hold full warrants authorising them to exercise all the powers conferred on inspectors by section 19 of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc. 1974. Occupiers may check the inspector's warrant when an inspection visit is made. Administrative arrangements are made by the Health and Safety Executive so that a member of one inspectorate does not do the work of another inspectorate.