ABSTRACT

This is an appeal by way of case stated by the prosecutor from a decision of the justices sitting at St Helens on 5 March 1981, whereby they dismissed a summons under s 33(1)(g) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the allegation being that the defendant employers failed to comply with a so called improvement notice under s 21 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which required the employers to remedy a contravention of s 2(3) of the Act of 1974 by 1 December 1980.