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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/304",
  "legislation_title": "Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND SAFETY\nMade 29th June 1999\nComing into operation 20th September 1999\nThe Department of Economic Development, being the Department concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 17(1), (2), (3) and (5), 45 and 55(2) of, and paragraphs 1(1), (2) and (3), 13, 14(1) and 15 of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with Article 46(1) of that Order with the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland and such other bodies as appeared to the Department to be appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Article 2(2) of S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 17 must be read with S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17), Articles 3(2) and 4(2); S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17) was amended by S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2), Article 71(1) and Schedule 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9); the general purposes of Part II referred to in Article 17(1) were extended by S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17), Articles 3(1) and 4(1). Article 47A was inserted by Article 3, and Article 2 was amended by Articles 4 and 8, of S.I. 1997/1774 (N.I. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Article 46(1) was amended by S.I. 1998/2795 (N.I. 18), Article 6(1) and Schedule 1, paragraphs 8 and 18"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/304/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:18:50.078422+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."
}