{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/193",
  "legislation_title": "Pipelines Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pipelines-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Design of a pipeline",
  "text": "The operator shall ensure that a fluid is not conveyed in the pipeline unless the pipeline has been so designed that, so far as is reasonably practicable, it can withstand—\n(a) forces arising from the pipeline’s operation;\n(b) the fluids that may be conveyed in the pipeline; and\n(c) the external forces and the chemical processes to which the pipeline may be subjected.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 12.5.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/193",
      "affecting_title": "Pipelines Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/193/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:13.631400+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."
}