{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/179",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-asbestos-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Additional provisions in the case of exceptions and exemptions",
  "text": "(1) Where under an exemption granted pursuant to regulation 29 or regulation 30 asbestos is used in a work process or is produced by a work process, the employer shall ensure that the quantity of asbestos and materials containing asbestos at the premises where the work is carried out is reduced to as low a level as is reasonably practicable.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where under an exemption granted pursuant to regulation 29 or regulation 30 a manufacturing process which gives rise to asbestos dust is carried out in a building, the employer shall ensure that any part of the building in which the process is carried out is—\n(a) so designed and constructed as to facilitate cleaning; and\n(b) equipped with an adequate and suitable vacuum cleaning system which shall, where reasonably practicable, be a fixed system.\n(3) Paragraph 2(a) shall not apply to a building in which, prior to 25th April 1988, there was carried out a process to which either—\n(a) as then in operation, regulation 13 of the Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1969 applied and the process was carried out in compliance with that regulation; or\n(b) that regulation did not apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.R. 1969 No. 337—revoked by S.R. 1988 No. 74"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/179/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:16:03.678852+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."
}