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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-1997/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/553",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Safety (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Exemptions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and to any Community obligation of the United Kingdom the Health and Safety Executive may, by a certificate in writing, exempt any person or class of persons from any requirement imposed by these Regulations and any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked by a further certificate in writing at any time.\n(2) The Health and Safety Executive shall not grant any such exemption unless, having regard to the circumstances of the case, and in particular to—\n(a) the conditions, if any, which it proposes to attach to the exemption; and\n(b) any other requirements imposed by or under any enactment which apply to the case,\nit is satisfied that the health and safety of persons who are likely to be affected by the exemption will not be prejudiced in consequence of it.\n(3) Subject to any Community obligation of the United Kingdom, the Secretary of State for Defence may, in the interests of national security, by a certificate in writing exempt any person or class of persons from the requirements of these Regulations and any such exemption 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/557",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority for Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems) Regulations 2006"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/553/regulation/8",
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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."
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