{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-1992/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3073",
  "legislation_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-1992",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HEALTH AND SAFETY\nMade 30th November 1992\nLaid before Parliament 9th December 1992\nComing into force 1st January 1993\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the design and construction of, and to the placing on the market and putting into service of, machinery, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section and of all his other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/707."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read, as regards England and Wales, with section 32(7) and (9) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), S.I. 1984/447 and section 17(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), as regards Scotland, with section 289B(4) and (6) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), as inserted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 11 to the Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45) and amended by section 55(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), S.I. 1984/526 and the said section 17(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 and as regards Northern Ireland, with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3) and S.R. (N.I.) 1984 No. 253."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3073/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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