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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/freight-containers-safety-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2025/90",
  "legislation_title": "The Freight Containers (Safety Convention) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/freight-containers-safety-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“g” means the standard acceleration of gravity; g equals 9.8 m/s²;\n“load” when used to describe a physical quantity to which units may be ascribed, signifies “mass”;\n“Maximum permissible payload” means the difference between maximum operating gross mass or Rating and the mass of the empty container including permanently affixed ancillary equipment;\n“P” means maximum permissible payload; and\n“R” means “Rating” which has the same meaning as maximum operating gross mass.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 in operation at 9.6.2025, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/90/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:26:01.407668+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."
}