{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1983/150",
  "legislation_title": "The Quarries (Northern Ireland) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-northern-ireland-order-1983",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Fencing of quarries",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Part 7 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011, a quarry (whether in course of being worked or not) shall be deemed to be a statutory nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily in manner provided by that Part if—\n(a) it is not provided with an efficient and properly maintained barrier so designed and constructed as to prevent any person from accidentally falling into the quarry, and\n(b) by reason of its accessibility from a highway or a place of public resort, it constitutes a danger to members of the public.\n(2) Any expenses incurred, by reason of the operation of Part 7 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011, by a person other than the owner or occupier (as defined for the purposes of this Order) of a quarry for the purpose of abating, or preventing the recurrence of, a statutory nuisance under paragraph (1) or in reimbursing a district council in respect of the abatement, or prevention of the recurrence, of such a statutory nuisance shall, subject to any agreement to the contrary, be recoverable by that person from the owner or occupier (as so defined) of the quarry.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 10(1) substituted (1.4.2012) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 23), s. 78, Sch. 3 para. 11(a)(i); S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 10(1) substituted (1.4.2012) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 23), s. 78, Sch. 3 para. 11(a)(ii); S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 10(1) substituted (1.4.2012) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 23), s. 78, Sch. 3 para. 11(a)(iii); S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 10(2) substituted (1.4.2012) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 23), s. 78, Sch. 3 para. 11(b)(i); S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 10(2) substituted (1.4.2012) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 23), s. 78, Sch. 3 para. 11(b)(ii); S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1983/150/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:24.889840+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."
}