Legislation and Regulations

The HASAWA (Health And Safety At Work Act) is the primary act which covers occupational health and safety. This means the employer has to look after the employee making sure that their well being is in no harm what so ever. You can find this law at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/37


The DSE regulations are in place to decrease the pain associated to sitting and staring at a monitor/screen for long periods of time. This means that your boss is not able to say you are not allowed to leave the building until it is finished. As this will cause your eyes to start hurting and your hands/arms as you would be no stop typing so you will be in pain. You can find this law at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2792/made


The computer misuse act is in place to protect computer users against willful attacks and theft of information. Offences under the act include hacking, unauthorized access to computer systems and purposely spreading malicious and damaging software, such as viruses. Also you are not allowed to log on to someone else's account to change their account about as when u get hired you agree not to mess with anyone else'e account or computer they are on. You can find this at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/contents


Copyright, Designs and Patents Act is there to stop people from taking your products and claiming they are yours or using them without your consent. This means if you like a current song that is about you are not able to take that song and use it as you could end up getting fined and on bad occasions you can go to jail. you are able to ask for permission to use it and some people will allow you to use their work if you buy the music they made.
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976 "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing, non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." Find it here http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents