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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/304",
  "legislation_title": "Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Wells",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2)—\n(a) a well and any activity in connection with it; and\n(b) an activity which is immediately preparatory to any activity in head (a).\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) includes keeping a vessel on station for the purpose of working on a well but otherwise does not include navigation or an activity connected with navigation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
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