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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/schedule-4/part-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/schedule-4/part-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/279",
  "legislation_title": "The Work at Height Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "schedule/4/part/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Stability of working platforms",
  "text": "A working platform shall –\n(a) be suitable and of sufficient strength and rigidity for the purpose or purposes for which it is intended to be used or is being used;\n(b) be so erected and used as to ensure that its components do not become accidentally displaced so as to endanger any person;\n(c) when altered or modified, be so altered or modified as to ensure that it remains stable; and\n(d) be dismantled in such a way as to prevent accidental displacement.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 Pt. 1 para. 4 in operation at 11.7.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/279/schedule/4/part/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:52:03.041531+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."
}