{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/31",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Exemption certificates",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4), the Executive may, by a certificate in writing, exempt any person or class of persons or any product containing asbestos or class of such products from all or any of the requirements or prohibitions imposed by regulations 4, 8, 12, 13, 21 and 22(5) to (7) and any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be varied or revoked by a further certificate in writing at any time.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the Executive may exempt emergency services from all or any of the requirements or prohibitions imposed by regulations 7 and 9 and any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be varied or revoked by a further certificate in writing at any time.\n(4) The Executive shall not grant any exemption under paragraph (1), (2) or (3) unless having regard to the circumstances of the case and in particular to—\n(a) the conditions, if any, which it proposes to attach to the exemption; and\n(b) any other requirements imposed by or under any enactments which apply to the case,\nit is satisfied that the health or safety of persons who are likely to be affected by the exemption will not be prejudiced in consequence of it.",
  "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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 31(2) revoked (1.6.2009) by The REACH Enforcement Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2852), Sch. 10 Pt. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 31 in operation at 1.3.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/31/regulation/31",
    "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."
}