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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-safety-quality-and-continuity-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-safety-quality-and-continuity-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/381",
  "legislation_title": "THE ELECTRICITY SAFETY, QUALITY AND CONTINUITY REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-safety-quality-and-continuity-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Precautions against supply failure",
  "text": "(1) A distributor shall ensure that their network shall be—\n(a) so arranged; and\n(b) so provided, where necessary, with fuses or automatic switching devices, appropriately located and set,\nas to restrict, so far as is reasonably practicable, the number of consumers affected by any fault in their network.\n(2) Subject to regulation 30, a distributor shall at all times take all reasonably practicable steps to avoid interruptions of supply resulting from their own acts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/381/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:32.086679+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."
}