{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pencils-and-graphic-instruments-safety-regulations-1998/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2406",
  "legislation_title": "The Pencils and Graphic Instruments (Safety) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pencils-and-graphic-instruments-safety-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pencils and Graphic Instruments (Safety) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 9th November 1998.\n(2) These Regulations shall not apply to any pencil, pen, brush, crayon, chalk or other similar article (including any pencil-lead for a propelling pencil) previously supplied before 1st August 1974.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1881",
      "affecting_title": "The Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2406/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:03.299159+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."
}