{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-and-pipelines-safety-1992-order-commencement-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-and-pipelines-safety-1992-order-commencement-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/251",
  "legislation_title": "Offshore, and Pipelines, Safety (1992 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-and-pipelines-safety-1992-order-commencement-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order.)\nThis Order brings into operation on 14th July 1996 the last remaining provision, paragraph (3) of Article 4, of the Offshore, and Pipelines, Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1992. That paragraph, as amended, provides that certain Articles of, and Schedules to, the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, and any Regulations made or having effect under those provisions, shall have effect as if they were “existing statutory provisions” of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978.\nRegulations made under the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 may, amongst other things, repeal or modify any “existing statutory provisions” of that Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/251/note",
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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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