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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-noise-at-work-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/1",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Noise at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-noise-at-work-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“daily personal noise exposure” means the level of daily personal noise exposure of an employee as ascertained in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 1, taking account of the level of noise and the duration of exposure and covering all noise;\n“emergency services” include—\n(a)police, fire, rescue and ambulance services;\n(b)Her Majesty’s Coastguard;\n“enforcing authority” means the Executive or district council, determined in accordance with the provisions of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999;\n“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland;\n“exposure limit value” means the level of daily or weekly personal noise exposure or of peak sound pressure set out in regulation 4 which must not be exceeded;\n“health surveillance” means assessment of the state of health of an employee, as related to exposure to noise;\n“lower exposure action value” means the lower of the two levels of daily or weekly personal noise exposure or of peak sound pressure set out in regulation 4 which, if reached or exceeded, require specified action to be taken to reduce risk;\n“the music and entertainment sectors” means all workplaces where—\n(a)live music is played; or\n(b)recorded music is played in a restaurant, bar, public house, discotheque or nightclub, or alongside live music or a live dramatic or dance performance;\n“noise” means any audible sound;\n“peak sound pressure” means the maximum sound pressure to which an employee is exposed, ascertained in accordance with Schedule 2;\n“risk assessment” means the assessment of risk required by regulation 5;\n“ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation;\n“territorial sea” means the territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Northern Ireland and “within the territorial sea” includes on, over and under it;\n“upper exposure action value” means the higher of the two levels of daily or weekly personal noise exposure or of peak sound pressure set out in regulation 4 which, if reached or exceeded, require specified action to be taken to reduce risk;\n“weekly personal noise exposure” means the level of weekly personal noise exposure as ascertained in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 2, taking account of the level of noise and the duration of exposure and covering all noise; and\n“working day” means a daily working period, irrespective of the time of day when it begins or ends, and of whether it begins or ends on the same calendar day.\n(2) In these Regulations, a reference to an employee being exposed to noise is a reference to the exposure of that employee to noise which arises while he is at work, or arises out of or in connection with his work.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 6.4.2006 for specified purposes, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 6.4.2008 in so far as not already in operation, see reg. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1999 No. 90, as amended by S.R. 2000 No. 375 and S.R. 2003 No. 33"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/1/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:48:59.498167+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."
}