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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-foundries-etc-metrication-regulations-1981/regulation-1",
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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": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as The Health and Safety (Foundries etc.) (Metrication) Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 1st December 1981.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “the principal Regulations” mean the Regulations to be amended by these Regulations, that is to say—\nThe Blasting (Castings and Other Articles) Special Regulations 1949;\nThe Iron and Steel Foundries Regulations 1953;\nThe Non-Ferrous Metals (Melting and Founding) Regulations 1962.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": ", to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": ", to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1332/regulation/1",
    "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."
}