{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-fees-regulations-2003/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-fees-regulations-2003/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/547",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-fees-regulations-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND SAFETY\nMade 6 March 2003\nLaid before Parliament 11 March 2003\nComing into force 1 April 2003\nThe Secretary of State, being the designated Minister for the purpose of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the notification and control of substances and the control and regulation of genetically modified organisms, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 2(2) and sections 43(2), (4), (5) and (6) and 82(3)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (“the 1974 Act”) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and for the purpose of giving effect without modifications to proposals submitted to him by the Health and Safety Commission under section 11(2)(d) of the 1974 Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1536 for the designation in relation to the notification and control of substances and S.I. 1991/755 in relation to the control and regulation of genetically modified organisms."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; the enabling powers conferred by section 2(2) were extended by virtue of section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1974 c. 37; sections 2,3 and 7 were modified by S.I. 2000/2831; section 43 was amended by the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Schedule 15, paragraph 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/547/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:22.339916+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."
}