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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-substances-that-deplete-the-ozone-layer-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-substances-that-deplete-the-ozone-layer-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/506",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Controls on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-substances-that-deplete-the-ozone-layer-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1974 Act” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;\n“authorised person” means a person authorised by the Secretary of State for any purpose of these Regulations;\n“customs officer” means any officer within the meaning of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979;\n“health and safety inspector” means an inspector appointed under section 19 of the 1974 Act;\n“the principal Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 3093/94 on substances that deplete the ozone layer.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires—\n(a) expressions used in these Regulations shall have the meaning they bear in the principal Regulation; and\n(b) any reference in these Regulations to an Article is to an Article of the principal Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1979 c. 2, see section 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L.333, 22.12. 1994, p.1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/506/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:50:54.620028+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."
}