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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-management-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-22",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/551",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Safety (Management) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-management-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n(a) “audit” means systematic assessment of the adequacy of the management system to achieve the purpose referred to in paragraph 6 carried out by persons who are sufficiently independent of the system (but who may be employed by the duty holder) to ensure that such assessment is objective;\n(b) ;“management system” means the organisation and arrangements established by the duty holder for managing his undertaking;\n(c) any reference to an operation intended to be undertaken by the duty holder is a reference to his intended operation of conveying gas in a network.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 22 in force at 1.4.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/551/schedule/1/paragraph/22",
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  },
  "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."
}