{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961-etc-metrication-regulations-1983/schedule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961-etc-metrication-regulations-1983/schedule-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/978",
  "legislation_title": "The Factories Act 1961 etc. (Metrication) Regulations 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961-etc-metrication-regulations-1983",
  "path": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "AMENDMENTS TO THE SCHEDULES TO ABSTRACT OF FACTORIES ACT ORDER 1973",
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\nProvision to be amended\nSubject-matter of measurement\nPresent measurement\nMeasurement to be substituted\nThe Abstract of Factories Act Order 1973\nSchedule 1\nParagraph 2\nMinimum amount of cubic space per person employed in a workroom\nFour hundred cubic feet\n11 cubic metres\nMaximum height from floor to be taken into account when calculating cubic space\nFourteen feet\n4.2 metres\nParagraph 3\nMinimum temperature of workroom after the first hour\n60°F\n16 degrees Celsius\nParagraph 17\nMinimum height of edge of fixed vessel, structure, sump or pit containing scalding, corrosive or poisonous liquid which need not be covered or fenced\nThree feet\n920 millimetres\nMinimum width of ladder, stair or gangway placed above, across or inside any vessel, structure, sump etc.\n18 inches\n460 millimetres\nMinimum height of secure fencing to ladder, stair or gangway\nPassage between vessels etc to be barred unless there is\nThree feet\n920 millimetres\n(a) minimum space between vessels or\n18 inches\n460 millimetres\n(b) minimum height of secure fencing\nThree feet\n920 millimetres\nParagraph 26\nMinimum distance between over-head travelling crane and person working near its wheel track\n20 feet\n6 metres\nParagraph 28\nDistance which person will be liable to fall\nSix feet six inches\n2 metres\nSchedule 2\nParagraph 13\nMinimum distance between over-head travelling crane and person working near its wheel track\n20 feet\n6 metres",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/682",
      "affecting_title": "The Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations 1989"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/978/schedule/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:00:18.421546+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."
}