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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-variation-order-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/184",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) (Variation) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974-application-outside-great-britain-variation-order-2026",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order varies the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/240) (“the 2013 Order”), which applies sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37) (“the prescribed provisions”) to certain premises and activities in the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain and to areas designated under the Continental Shelf Act 1964 (c. 29).\nArticle 4 of the 2013 Order applies the prescribed provisions to offshore installations. Article 2 of this Order varies the definition of offshore installation in Article 4 of the 2013 Order to include structures used for the production of hydrogen.\nA full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from Health and Safety Executive, Redgrave Court, Merton Road, Bootle, Merseyside, L20 7HS and is annexed alongside the Explanatory Memorandum on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/184/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:05:32.221008+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."
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