{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2022/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2022/9",
  "legislation_title": "The Mines (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mines-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Mines Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "text": "(1) The Mines Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of “action level” substitute—\n““action level” in relation to respirable dust, means a concentration in air equal to or greater than 3mg/m3 as a time-weighted average over a 40 hour period;”.\n(3) Omit regulation 44.\n(4) In regulation 45—\n(a) in paragraph (5) omit “and respirable crystalline silica”; and\n(b) in paragraph (6)—\n(i) in the words before sub-paragraph (a) omit “or respirable crystalline silica”, and\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (a) omit “relevant”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2016 No. 427"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/9/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:36:16.367351+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."
}