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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/37",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Duty not to charge employees for things done or provided pursuant to certain specific requirements.",
  "text": "No employer shall levy or permit to be levied on any employee of his any charge in respect of anything done or provided in pursuance of any specific requirement of the relevant statutory provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 1–25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 33, 34–59, 80, 81 and 82 applied by S.I. 1989/840, arts. 2–10"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 1-59, 80-82 applied (11.7.2001) by S.I. 2001/2127, arts. 4(1), 5(1)(2), 6(1), 7(1), 8(1), 10 (with art. 11) (as amended by S.I. 2009/1750, art. 2(2)(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 1-59, 80-82 applied (temp.) (5.8.2009) by The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/2127), arts. 8A, 8B (as inserted by S.I. 2009/1750, art. 2(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 1-59 applied by S.I. 2001/2127 art. 8A 8B (as inserted (E.W.S.) (6.4.2011) by The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) (Variation) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/745), arts. 1(1), 3(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 9 modified (6.4.2022) by S.I. 1992/2966, reg. 3A (as inserted by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Pt. 1 modified (1.1.2018) by The Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1075), regs. 1(2), 2(3) (with regs. 2(5), 3, Sch. 8)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/37/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:47.162415+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."
}