{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-regulations-1988/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-regulations-1988/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1655",
  "legislation_title": "The Docks Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/docks-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Examination of lifting plant",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no lifting plant shall be used unless it has been thoroughly examined by a competent person—\n(a) at least once in the preceding twelve month period or such shorter period as may have been specified by a competent person in—\n(i) the latest certificate or report of examination of the plant obtained pursuant to regulation 17, or\n(ii) where no such certificate or report has been obtained, the latest certificate of examination of the plant obtained pursuant to the Docks Regulations 1925 or the Docks Regulations 1934; and\n(b) following a test in accordance with regulation 14.\n(2) This regulation shall not apply in relation to the use of lifting plant which is subject to the requirements of regulation 8 of the Merchant Shipping (Hatches and Lifting Plant) Regulations 1988.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2307",
      "affecting_title": "The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/195",
      "affecting_title": "The Lifting Plant and Equipment (Records of Test and Examination etc.) Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/195",
      "affecting_title": "The Lifting Plant and Equipment (Records of Test and Examination etc.) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1655/regulation/15",
    "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."
}