{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961/section-29.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/34",
  "legislation_title": "Factories Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961",
  "path": "section/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Safe means of access and safe place of employment.",
  "text": "(1) There shall, so far as is reasonably practicable, be provided and maintained safe means of access to every place at which any person has at any time to work, and every such place shall, so far as is reasonably practicable, be made and kept safe for any person working there.\n(2) Where any person has to work at a place from which he will be liable to fall a distance more than 2 metres, then, unless the place is one which affords secure foothold and, where necessary, secure hand-hold, means shall be provided, so far as is reasonably practicable, by fencing or otherwise, for ensuring his safety.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 29 repealed (1.1.1993 with respect to certain premises and 1.1.1996 with respect to certain further premises) by S.I. 1992/3004, regs. 1(2)(3), 2, 3, 27(1), Sch. 2 Pt.I (with reg. 27(2))."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1983/978, regs. 3, 4, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/34/section/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:10:19.831204+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."
}