Regulation 3

any work, operation or process involving a specified material; or

any building works relating to any building in respect of which or any part of which no certificate of statutory completion or a temporary occupation permit is issued on or after 1st January 1991, to ensure that the work, operation or process or the building works, as the case may be, starts to be carried out only after the employer or principal, as the case may be, receives a survey report from a competent person appointed by the employer or principal under paragraph (2) as to whether asbestos is present in the specified material, or asbestos or asbestos-containing material is fixed or installed in the building, as the case may be.

in the case of any work, operation or process involving a specified material referred to in paragraph (1)(a), to conduct a survey of the specified material to ascertain whether asbestos is present in the specified material; or

in the case of any building works relating to a building referred to in paragraph (1)(b), to conduct a survey of the building to ascertain whether asbestos or asbestos-containing material is fixed or installed in the building.

be present at any workplace; or

be fixed or installed in any building in respect of which or any part of which a certificate of statutory completion or a temporary occupation permit is issued on or after 1st January 1991, the Commissioner may, by order in writing, direct the employer of a person who carries out or is to carry out, or the principal under whose direction a person carries out or is to carry out, any work, operation or process at the workplace or any building works relating to any part of such a building, as the case may be, to appoint a competent person —

in the case of any work, operation or process, to conduct a survey of the workplace to ascertain whether asbestos or asbestos-containing material is present at the workplace; or

in the case of any building works, to conduct a survey of the building to ascertain whether asbestos or asbestos-containing material is fixed or installed in the building.