{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-20.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/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any person who contravenes any of the provisions of Articles . . . 10 and 11. . . shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) In the event of a contravention of any of the provisions mentioned in paragraph (1), the owner, occupier and agent of the quarry, as well as the person mentioned in that paragraph, shall each be guilty of an offence unless he proves that he had taken all reasonable means by publishing, and to the best of his power enforcing, those provisions to prevent that contravention.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Where Article . . . 18 is contravened the owner, occupier or agent of the quarry shall be guilty of an offence.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 20(1) omitted (1.8.2006) by virtue of Quarries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/205), regs 1(1), 41(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1990 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 20(3) repealed (1.8.2006) by Quarries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/205), regs 1(1), 41(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 20(4) repealed (1.8.2006) by Quarries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/205), regs 1(1), 41(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 20(5) repealed (1.8.2006) by Quarries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/205), regs 1(1), 41(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 20(6) omitted (1.8.2006) by virtue of Quarries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/205), regs 1(1), 41(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 20(7) repealed (1.8.2006) by Quarries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/205), regs 1(1), 41(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Art. 20(8) repealed (1.8.2006) by Quarries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/205), regs 1(1), 41(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Art. 20(9) repealed (1.8.2006) by Quarries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/205), regs 1(1), 41(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Art. 20(10) repealed (1.8.2006) by Quarries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/205), regs 1(1), 41(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1983/150/article/20",
    "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."
}