{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-precautions-workplace-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-precautions-workplace-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-20.json",
  "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": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Disapplication of Article 31 of the 1984 Order",
  "text": "In Article 31 of the 1984 Order (duty as to means of escape and for fighting fire), at the end of paragraph (2), there shall be added the words “but this Article does not apply where Part II of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 applies”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in operation at 1.12.2001, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 31 was substituted by S.I. 1993/1578 (N.I. 7), Article 9(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/348",
      "affecting_title": "Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/348/regulation/20",
    "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."
}