{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/confined-spaces-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/confined-spaces-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/13",
  "legislation_title": "Confined Spaces Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/confined-spaces-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Disapplication of Regulations",
  "text": "These Regulations shall not apply to or in relation to—\n(a) the master or crew of a sea-going ship or to the employer of such persons in respect of the normal ship-board activities carried out solely by a ship’s crew under the direction of the master;\n(b) any place below ground in a mine; or\n(c) any diving operation to and in relation to which the Diving Operations at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 apply by virtue of regulation 3 of those Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.6.1999, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/13",
      "affecting_title": "Confined Spaces Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/45",
      "affecting_title": "The Diving at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/13/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:21:33.648763+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}