{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/notification-of-installations-handling-hazardous-substances-regulations-1982/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1357",
  "legislation_title": "The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/notification-of-installations-handling-hazardous-substances-regulations-1982",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive;\n“installation” means a site or pipe–line for which a notification is required under Regulation 3(1);\n“hazardous substance” means a substance specified in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 1 to these Regulations or substances of any class specified in column 1 of Part II of that Schedule;\n“notifiable quantity” means—\n(a) in the case of a substance specified in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 1, the quantity of that substance specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part;\n(b) in the case of substances of a class specified in column 1 of Part II of that Schedule, the total quantity of all substances of that class specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part;\nand in either case the quantity shall be determined in accordance with Regulation 3(2);\n“site” means—\n(a) the whole of an area of land under the control of a person and includes a pier, jetty or similar structure whether floating or not; or\n(b) a structure, whether floating or not, which is within the inland waters of Great Britain and which is under the control of a person.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to—\n(a) a numbered Regulation or Schedule is a reference to the Regulation of or Schedule to these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the Regulation or Schedule in which that reference appears.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev.in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/825",
      "affecting_title": "The Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1357/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:14:13.357575+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."
}