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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-foundries-etc-metrication-regulations-1981/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1332",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety (Foundries etc.) (Metrication) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-foundries-etc-metrication-regulations-1981",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations amend—\nThe Blasting (Castings and Other Articles) Special Regulations 1949;\nThe Iron and Steel Foundries Regulations 1953; and\nThe Non-Ferrous Metals (Melting and Founding) Regulations 1962;\nby substituting amounts or quantities expressed in metric units for amounts or quantities not so expressed. The substituted amounts preserve the effect of the original provisions except to the extent necessary to obtain amounts expressed in convenient and suitable terms.\nRegulation 3 provides that the amendments do not relate to premises or plant in existence or under construction immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations if those premises or that plant complied with the then existing Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1332/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:33:19.950640+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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