{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/228",
  "legislation_title": "Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-and-wells-design-and-construction-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND SAFETY\nMade 7th June 1996\nComing into operation 21st July 1996\nThe Department of Economic Development, being the Department concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 17(1) to (6) and 55(2) of, and paragraphs 1(1) and (2), 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12(1) and (3), 13, 14(1), 15, 17 and 19 of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (“the 1978 Order”) and Article 3(2) of the Offshore, and Pipelines, Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with Article 46(1) of the 1978 Order with the Health and Safety Agency 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": "S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9); the general purposes of Part II referred to in Article 17(1) were extended by Article 3(1) of the Offshore, and Pipelines, Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1992, S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/228/introduction",
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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."
}