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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-safety-case-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/247",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-safety-case-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND SAFETY\nMade 19th April 2007\nComing into operation 21st May 2007\nThe Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, being the Department concerned, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 17(1) to (6) and 55(2) of, and paragraphs 1(1) and (2), 7(1), 8, 13, 14(1) and 15 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.\nIn accordance with Article 46(1) of the 1978 Order, the powers exercised give effect without modifications to proposals submitted to it by the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland under Article 13(1A) of the 1978 Order.\nIn accordance with Article 46(3) of the 1978 Order, the Executive has consulted the bodies which appeared to it to be appropriate.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of Economic Development; see S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11), Article 3 and S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 2(2) of S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 17 must be read with S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17), Article 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9); the general purposes of Part II referred to in Article 17(1) were extended by S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17), Article 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Article 46 was amended by S.I. 1998/2795 (N.I. 18), Article 6(1) and Schedule 1, paragraphs 8 and 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Formerly the Health and Safety Agency for Northern Ireland; see S.I. 1998/2795 (N.I. 18), Article 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Article 13(1A) was substituted by S.I. 1998/2795 (N.I. 18), Article 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/247/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:40:50.967504+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."
}