{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-northern-ireland-1993/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-northern-ireland-1993/regulation-12.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": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Exemption certificates",
  "text": "—\n(1) The Secretary of State for Defence may, in the interests of national security, by a certificate in writing exempt—\n(a) any of the home forces, any visiting force or any headquarters from those requirements of these Regulations which impose obligations on employers; or\n(b) any member of the home forces, any member of a visiting force or any member of a headquarters from the requirements imposed by regulation 10 or 11;\nand any exemption such as is specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked by the said Secretary of State by a further certificate in writing at any time.\n(2) In this regulation—\n(a) “the home forces” has the same meaning as in section 12(1) of the Visiting Forces Act 1952;\n(b) “headquarters” has the same meaning as in Article 3(2) of the Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1965;\n(c) “member of a headquarters” has the same meaning as in paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964; and\n(d) “visiting force” has the same meaning as it does for the purposes of any provision of Part I of the Visiting Forces Act 1952.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1952 c. 67"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1965/1536, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1964 c. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1993/20/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:53:21.849670+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."
}