{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-design-and-management-regulations-1994/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-design-and-management-regulations-1994/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3140",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-design-and-management-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Client to ensure health and safety file is available for inspection",
  "text": "(1) Every client shall take such steps as it is reasonable for a person in his position to take to ensure that the information in any health and safety file which has been delivered to him is kept available for inspection by any person who may need information in the file for the purpose of complying with the requirements and prohibitions imposed on him by or under the relevant statutory provisions.\n(2) It shall be sufficient compliance with paragraph (1) by a client who disposes of his entire interest in the property of the structure if he delivers the health and safety file for the structure to the person who acquires his interest in the property of the structure and ensures such person is aware of the nature and purpose of the health and safety file.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2380",
      "affecting_title": "The Construction (Design and Management) (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3140/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:21:10.402256+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."
}