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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-lead-at-work-regulations-1998/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/543",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1998",
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  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Assessment of health risks created by work involving exposure to lead",
  "text": "Without prejudice to regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992, an employer shall not carry on any work which is liable to expose any employees to lead at work unless he has made a suitable and sufficient assessment of whether the exposure of any employees to lead is liable to be significant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2051; as amended by S.I. 1994/2865 and S.I. 1997/135."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3242",
      "affecting_title": "The Management of Health and Safety at Work"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/543/regulation/5",
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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."
}