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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1592",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Stability of working platform",
  "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; and\n(b) be so erected and used as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that it does not become accidentally displaced so as to endanger any person; and\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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1592/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:41:26.063983+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."
}