{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-424/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-424/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/424",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2016/424 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on cableway installations and repealing Directive 2000/9/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-424",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "1. This Regulation applies to new cableway installations designed to transport persons, to modifications of cableway installations requiring a new authorisation, and to subsystems and safety components for cableway installations.\n2. This Regulation does not apply to the following:\n(a) lifts covered by the Lifts Regulations 2016;\n(b) cableway installations that are categorised by the Cableway Installations Regulations 2018 as historic, cultural or heritage installations, that entered into service before 1 January 1986 and that are still in operation, and that have not had any significant changes in design or construction, including subsystems and safety components specifically designed for them;\n(c) installations intended for agricultural or forestry purposes;\n(d) cableway installations for the service of mountain shelters and huts intended only for the transport of goods and specifically designated persons;\n(e) on-site or mobile equipment exclusively designed for leisure and amusement purposes and not as a means for transporting persons;\n(f) mining installations or other industrial on-site installations used for industrial activities;\n(g) installations in which the users or their carriers are waterborne.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Cableway Installations (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1347), regs. 1, 13(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Cableway Installations (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1347), regs. 1, 13(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/424/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:58.468924+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."
}