{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/193",
  "legislation_title": "Pipelines Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND SAFETY\nMade 28th March 1997\nComing into operation 12th May 1997\nThe Department of Economic Development, being the Department concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 17(1) to (6), 40(2) and 55(2) of, and paragraphs 14(1) and 15 of Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978, and of every other power enabling it 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 the Department to be appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "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": "Article 17 must be read with S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17), Articles 3(2) and 4(2); S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17) was amended by S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2), Article 71(1) and Schedule 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "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)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/193/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."
}