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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-in-the-air-regulations-1990/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/556",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Asbestos in the Air Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-in-the-air-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Control of Asbestos in the Air Regulations 1990 and subject to paragraph (2) shall come into force on 5th April 1990.\n(2) In the case of any premises to which section 5 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 applied before 31st December 1988, regulations 2 and 3 shall come into force on 30th June 1991.\n(3) In these Regulations\n“asbestos” means the following fibrous silicates —\nactinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite or tremolite.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/556/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:24:16.538650+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."
}