{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-consultation-with-employees-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-consultation-with-employees-regulations-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1513",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety (Consultation with Employees) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-consultation-with-employees-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Duty of employer to consult",
  "text": "Where there are employees who are not represented by safety representatives under the 1977 Regulations, the employer shall consult those employees in good time on matters relating to their health and safety at work and, in particular, with regard to—\n(a) the introduction of any measure at the workplace which may substantially affect the health and safety of those employees;\n(b) his arrangements for appointing or, as the case may be, nominating persons in accordance with regulations 7(1) and 8(1)(b) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 or article 13(3)(b) of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 or regulation 12(3)(b) of the Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006;\n(c) any health and safety information he is required to provide to those employees by or under the relevant statutory provisions;\n(d) the planning and organisation of any health and safety training he is required to provide to those employees by or under the relevant statutory provisions; and\n(e) the health and safety consequences for those employees of the introduction (including the planning thereof) of new technologies into the workplace.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(b) substituted (29.12.1999) by The Management of Health and Safety at Work 1999 (S.I. 1999/3242), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 (with regs. 2(1), 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(b) substituted (E.W.) (1.10.2006) by The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1541), arts. 1(3), 41(2) (with arts. 49, 51) (as amended by The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Subordinate Provisions Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/484), arts. 1(1), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(b) substituted (S.) (1.10.2006) by The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications and Savings) (No. 2) Order 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/457), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.10.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1513/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:02.106740+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."
}