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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electrical-equipment-for-explosive-atmospheres-certification-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/77",
  "legislation_title": "Electrical Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres (Certification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electrical-equipment-for-explosive-atmospheres-certification-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Electrical Equipment for Explosive Atmospheres (Certification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990 and, for the purposes of regulation 3(3), “the Framework Directive” has the same meaning as in the principal Regulations.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1990 No. 284; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1995 No. 275"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/77/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:25:02.263146+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."
}