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Posted By Robert.
If we lease an office in a multi storey block or other where there is more than one business.
does each business need to display the no smoking sign on the door to their relative office, or is only one sign needed at the main entrance to the building.
Therefore if the latter, is the Landlord responsible for implementing the smoking ban and therefore installing the appropriate signage?
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Posted By Darren J Fraser
My understanding is that a sign must be displayed on each entry point to the workplace. Therefore each business tenant would be required to display the correct signage on their respective door, and the landlord on the main entrance.
Hope that is of use.
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Posted By Lee Mac
Our local council here in NI provides free signage to comply with the recent ban. As my boss is a landlord, I have erected signage at the entrance of the buildings and in each entrance of each office unit.
Legally though I would say it would be have to be stated in your tenancy agreement with regards to who is responsible for what.
But to avoid the associated legal costs- contact your EA/Council to see what they have to offer- you may find this option the easiest way to go and you can rest happy.
Lee
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Posted By Chris Packham
What about a small consultancy working from home. Two partners (man and wife) resident in the home, the third partner living elsewhere. Two rooms in house used exclusively as offices (and rated as such). Are signs needed, should they be on the main entrance to the house (we don't allow smoking in the house anyway) or just on the doors to the two rooms?
Chris
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Posted By CRT
Robert.
i would agree with Darren`s advice,
Chris
As i understand the Regs, and given the information you provided, you would only need to display a sign at the entrance to the two work rooms.
Colin
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
This is where the regulations begin to shoot themselves in the foot. We do not exhibit statutory signs of this nature when the law prohibits certain actions - and I seem to think there is a clause permitting assessment as an alternative but most LAs seem to be ignoring this.
Bob
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Posted By FJ
You can get "reasonable quantaties" of the signs from the Dept of Health (smokefree website)
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Reference my last comment concerning assessment - regulation 6(6)c coupled to regulation 7 requires seems to indicate that No Smoking signs may not always be needed and if an issue is raised the prosecution has to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt that the issue did not apply and was not a reason to display signs.
Bob
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