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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-1999/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2244",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Safety Regulations 1999",
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  "path": "regulation/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "These Regulations may be cited as the Railway Safety Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 30th January 2000, except regulation 4 which shall come into force on 1st January 2003, regulation 5 which shall come into force on 1st January 2005, and regulation 7 which shall come into force on 1st April 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2688",
      "affecting_title": "The Railways (Safety Case) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2244/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:07:46.935992+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."
}