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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-safety-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-safety-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/165",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-safety-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND SAFETY\nMade 13th March 2007\nComing into operation 23rd April 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), 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. The Regulations 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, after the Executive had carried out consultations in accordance with Article 46(3) of that Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of Economic Development; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3(5) and S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11), Article 3"
    },
    {
      "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), Articles 3(2) and 4(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), Articles 3(1) and 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Article 13(1) was substituted by S.I. 1998/2795 (N.I. 18), Article 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Article 46(3) was amended by S.I. 1998/2795 (N.I. 18), Article 6(1) and Schedule 1, paragraphs 8 and 18(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/165/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:39.844962+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."
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