{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-regulations-1988/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-regulations-1988/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1655",
  "legislation_title": "The Docks Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Testing of lifting plant",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), no lifting plant shall be used—\n(a) after manufacture or installation; or\n(b) after any repair or modification which is likely to require an alteration to the safe working load or affect the lifting plant’s strength or stability,\nwithout first being suitably tested by a competent person except in the case of a rope sling manufactured from rope which has been tested by a competent person and spliced in a safe manner.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a lifting appliance which is on board a ship and is the property of the ship owner or is rented, leased or otherwise hired by him shall not be used unless it has been suitably tested by a competent person within the preceding five years.\n(3) This regulation shall not apply in relation to the use of lifting plant which is subject to the requirements of regulation 7 of the Merchant Shipping (Hatches and Lifting Plant) Regulations 1988.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1639."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2307",
      "affecting_title": "The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "disapplied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/3073",
      "affecting_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1655/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:36.751718+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."
}