{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-at-work-regulations-1989/regulation-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-at-work-regulations-1989/regulation-30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/635",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-at-work-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Exemption certificates",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Health and Safety Executive may, by a certificate in writing, exempt–\n(a) any person;\n(b) any premises;\n(c) any electrical equipment;\n(d) any electrical system;\n(e) any electrical process;\n(f) any activity,\nor any class of the above, from any requirement or prohibition imposed by these Regulations and any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked by a certificate in writing at any time.\n(2) The Executive shall not grant any such exemption unless, having regard to the circumstances of the case, and in particular to–\n(a) the conditions, if any, which it proposes to attach to the exemption; and\n(b) any other requirements imposed by or under any enactment which apply to the case,\nit is satisfied that the health and safety of persons who are likely to be affected by the exemption will not be prejudiced in consequence of it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 30 in force at 1.4.1990, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/635/regulation/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:45:43.001183+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."
}