{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-design-and-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-design-and-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/146",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-design-and-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Energy distribution installations",
  "text": "(1) Where necessary to prevent danger, energy distribution installations shall be suitably located, periodically checked and clearly indicated.\n(2) Where there is a risk to construction work from overhead electric power cables—\n(a) they shall be directed away from the area of risk; or\n(b) the power shall be isolated and, where necessary, earthed.\n(3) If it is not reasonably practicable to comply with paragraph 2(a) or (b), suitable warning notices shall be provided together with one or more of the following—\n(a) barriers suitable for excluding work equipment which is not needed;\n(b) suspended protections where vehicles need to pass beneath the cables; or\n(c) measures providing an equivalent level of safety.\n(4) Construction work which is liable to create a risk to health or safety from an underground service, or from damage to or disturbance of it, shall not be carried out unless suitable and sufficient steps (including any steps required by this regulation) have been taken to prevent the risk, so far as is reasonably practicable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/146/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:57:19.957693+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."
}