{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/47",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND SAFETY\nTRANSPORT\nMade 26th January 2007\nComing into operation 2nd March 2007\nThe Department for Regional Development, being the Department concerned , in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 17 (1), (2), (4)(a), (5)(b) and (6)(b), 17(3) and 55(2) of, and paragraphs 1(1)(a) and (c) of Schedule 3 to the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978and of every other power enabling it in that behalf and after consultation as required by Article 46(1) of that Order with the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland and other such bodies as appeared to the Department to be appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Article 2(2) of SI 1978/1039 (N.I.9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1978 SI 1978/1039 (N.I. 9); the general purposes of part II referred to in article 17(1) were extended by section 1 of the Railway Safety Act (Northern Ireland) 2002; Article 55 was amended by SI 1998/2795 (N.I. 18) Article 6(1) and paragraphs 13 and 19 of Schedule 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 46 was amended by SI 1998/2795(N.I. 18), Article 6(1) and paragraph 18 of Schedule 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/47/introduction",
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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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