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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-inquiries-procedure-regulations-1975/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1975/335",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety Inquiries (Procedure) Regulations 1975",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Appearances at inquiry",
  "text": "(1) The persons entitled to appear at the inquiry shall be—\n(a) the Commission;\n(b) any enforcing authority concerned;\n(c) where the inquiry relates to any matter arising in Scotland, the Procurator Fiscal;\n(d) any employers' association or trade union representing respectively employers or employees who are concerned;\n(e) any person who was injured or suffered damage as a result of the accident, occurrence, situation, or other matter the subject of the inquiry or his personal representatives;\n(f) the owner or occupier of any premises in which there occurred or arose the accident, occurrence, situation or other matter the subject of the inquiry;\n(g) any person carrying on activities giving rise to the accident, occurrence, situation or other matter the subject of the inquiry.\n(2) Any other person may appear at the discretion of the appointed person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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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