{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-29.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1978/1039",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-northern-ireland-order-1978",
  "path": "article/29",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Obtaining of information",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of obtaining—\nSub‐para.(a) rep. by 1998 NI 18\n(b) any information which an enforcing authority needs for the discharge of the authority's functions,\nthe Department concerned, or the Executive. . . , may serve on any person a notice requiring that person to furnish to the Executive or, as the case may be, to the enforcing authority in question such information about such matters as may be specified in the notice, and to do so in such form and manner and within such time as may be so specified.\nParas.(2)‐(4) rep. by 1988 NI 3",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 2000/87; 2000/120"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "mod. by 2002 c. 8 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1998 NI 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Arts. 18-30 applied (with modifications) (27.7.2009) by Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/238), reg. 14(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Arts. 18-30 applied (with modifications) (24.8.2009) by Explosives (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/273), reg. 14(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Arts. 27A-30 applied (with modifications) (1.3.2014) by The Biocidal Products and Chemicals (Appointment of Authorities and Enforcement) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1506), regs. 2(4), 20 (with regs. 3(4)(5), 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Arts. 20-30 applied with modification(s) (1.6.2015) by The Explosives (Appointment of Authorities and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/236), regs. 1(2), 5(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Arts. 20-30 applied (with mofifications) (1.6.2015) by The Biocidal Products and Chemicals (Appointment of Authorities and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/206), regs. 2(2), 16 (with regs. 3, 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Arts. 23-33 applied (with modifications) (21.10.2016) by The Making Available on the Market and Supervision of Transfers of Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/366), reg. 1, Sch. 2 paras. 6(a), 7 (with Sch. 2 para. 7(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Art. 29 applied (with modifications) (8.12.2016) by The Lifts Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1093), reg. 1, Sch. 9 paras. 1(k), 2 (with regs. 3-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Art. 29 applied (with modifications) (8.12.2016) by The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1101), reg. 1, Sch. 5 paras. 1, 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Art. 29 applied (with modifications) (8.12.2016) by The Simple Pressure Vessels (Safety) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1092), reg. 1, Sch. 7 paras. 1(j), 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Art. 29 applied (with modifications) (10.7.2017) by The Equipment and Protective Systems Intended for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/90), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 1(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "Art. 29 applied (with modifications) (21.4.2018) by The Personal Protective Equipment (Enforcement) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/390), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 (with reg. 2(1)-(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "Art. 29 applied (with modifications) (30.7.2018) by The Cableway Installations Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/816), regs. 1, 22(1)-(3) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C13",
      "text": "Art. 29 applied (with modifications) (8.12.2016) by The Pressure Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1105), reg. 1, Sch. 9 paras. 1(j), 2 (with reg. 88) (as amended (1.10.2018) by The Simple Pressure Vessels, Electrical Equipment and Pressure Equipment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/966), regs. 1(1), 4(2) (with reg. 1(2)-(4)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C14",
      "text": "Art. 29 applied (with modifications) (16.7.2021) by The Market Surveillance (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/858), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1978/1039/article/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:10.667484+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."
}