{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-lead-at-work-regulations-1998/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/543",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-lead-at-work-regulations-1998",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Biological monitoring shall be carried out at intervals not exceeding those set out below—\n(a) in respect of an employee other than a young person or a woman of reproductive capacity, at least every 6 months, but where the results of the measurements for individuals or for groups of workers have shown on the previous two consecutive occasions on which monitoring was carried out a lead in air exposure greater than 0.075 mg/m3 but less than 0.100 mg/m3 and where the blood-lead concentration of any individual employee is less than 30 μg/dl, the frequency of monitoring may be reduced to once a year;\n(b) in respect of any young person or a woman of reproductive capacity, at such intervals as the relevant doctor shall specify, being not greater than 3 months.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/543/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:36:01.838567+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."
}