{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-use-of-explosives-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-use-of-explosives-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/555",
  "legislation_title": "Construction (Use of Explosives) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-use-of-explosives-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Person upon whom duties are imposed by these regulations",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of every employer whose employees are carrying out construction work involving the handling and use of explosives and every self-employed person carrying out construction work involving the handling and use of explosives to comply with the provisions of these Regulations in so far as they affect him or any person at work under his control or relate to matters which are within his control.\n(2) It shall be the duty of every person (other than a person having a duty under paragraph (1) or (3)), who controls the way in which any construction work involving the handling and use of explosives is carried out by a person at work, to comply with the provisions of these Regulations in so far as they relate to matters which are within his control.\n(3) It shall be the duty of every employee carrying out construction work involving the handling and use of explosives to comply with the requirements of these Regulations in so far as they relate to the performance of or the refraining from an act by him.\n(4) It shall be the duty of every person at work—\n(a) as regards any duty or requirement imposed on any other person under these Regulations, to co-operate with that person so far as is necessary to enable that duty or requirement to be performed or compiled with; and\n(b) where working under the control of another person, to report to that person any defect which he is aware may endanger the health and safety of himself or another person.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 12.2.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/555/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:25:46.463684+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."
}