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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-northern-ireland-1993/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-northern-ireland-1993/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1993/20",
  "legislation_title": "Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-northern-ireland-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND SAFETY\nMade 19th January 1993\nComing into operation 22nd February 1993\nThe Department of Agriculture, the Department of Economic Development and the Department of the Environment acting jointly as the Department concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 17(1) (2), (3) and (5) of, and paragraphs 10 and 13 of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 and of every other power enabling them in that behalf after consultation in accordance with Article 46(1) of that Order, with the Health and Safety Agency for Northern Ireland and such other bodies as appeared to them to be appropriate, hereby make the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "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)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1993/20/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."
}