{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-precautions-workplace-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/348",
  "legislation_title": "Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-precautions-workplace-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES\nFIRE SERVICES\nMade 5th October 2001\nComing into operation 1st December 2001\nThe Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, being a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the minimum health and safety requirements for the workplace that relate to fire safety, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and by Articles 48 and 49(6) of the Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1984, and now vested in it, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Article 3(6) of S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1711"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/1821 (N.I. 11); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “prescribed”; Article 48 was amended by S.I. 1993/1578 (N.I. 7), Article 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See Article 6(c) of, and Part III of Schedule 4 to, S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/348/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:10:14.740807+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."
}