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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/schedule-5/part-II/crossheading-head-h-employment/paragraph-wrapper51n1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/46",
  "legislation_title": "Scotland Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/5/part/II/crossheading/head-h-employment/paragraph/wrapper51n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "H2. Health and safety",
  "text": "Section H2.\nThe subject-matter of\nPart I of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974\nThe Health and Safety Commission, the Health and Safety Executive and the Employment Medical Advisory Service\nInterpretation\nFor the purposes of the reservation of the subject-matter of Part I of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974–\n(a) “work” and “at work” in that Part are to be taken to have the meaning they have on the principal appointed day;\n(b) that subject-matter includes–\n(i) process fire precautions;\n(ii) fire precautions in relation to petroleum and petroleum spirit; and\n(iii) fire safety on . . . ships and hovercraft, in mines and on offshore installations; . . .\n(iv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nbut does not include any other aspect of fire safety.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 Pt II Section H2: words substituted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1749, arts. 1, 6(1); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 Pt. 2 Section H2: word in para. (b)(ii) inserted (23.3.2005) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Modifications of Schedule 5) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/865), arts. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 5 Pt. 2 Section H2: words in para. (b)(iii) repealed (23.3.2005) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Modifications of Schedule 5) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/865), arts. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 5 Pt. 2 Section H2: para. (b)(iv) and preceding word repealed (23.3.2005) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Modifications of Schedule 5) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/865), arts. 1, 2(c)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/schedule/5/part/II/crossheading/head-h-employment/paragraph/wrapper51n1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:08.185252+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."
}