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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/31",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
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  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Duty to prevent or reduce the spread of asbestos",
  "text": "Every employer shall prevent or, where this is not reasonably practicable, reduce to the lowest level reasonably practicable the spread of asbestos from any place where work under his control is carried out.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked with savings (28.5.2012) by The Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/179), reg. 33(1) (with regs. 3(5), 33(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in operation at 1.3.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:43:09.836436+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."
}