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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-management-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-management-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/195",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Safety (Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-management-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND SAFETY\nMade 28th March 1997\nComing into operation—\nThe whole Regulations except regulation 8 12th May 1997\nRegulation 8 12th December 1997\nThe Department of Economic Development, being the Department concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 17(1) to (6) and 55(2) of, and paragraphs 1(1), 14(1), 15 and 20(a) of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (“the 1978 Order”) and by Article 4(2) and (3) of the Offshore, and Pipelines, Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with Article 46(1) of the 1978 Order with the Health and Safety Agency for Northern Ireland and such other bodies as appeared to the Department to be appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Article 2(2) of S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9); the general purposes of Part II referred to in Article 17(1) were extended by S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17), Article 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17); Article 4(3)(a) was amended by Schedule 6 to the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/195/introduction",
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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."
}