{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-first-aid-regulations-1981/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1981/917",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-first-aid-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duty of relevant self-employed person to provide first-aid equipment",
  "text": "(1) A relevant self-employed person must provide, or ensure that there is provided, such equipment, if any, as is adequate and appropriate in the circumstances to enable that person to render first-aid to himself or herself while at work.\n(2) For the purpose of this regulation “relevant self-employed person” means a self-employed person who conducts an undertaking of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 3(2) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 substituted (1.10.2015) by The Deregulation Act 2015 (Health and Safety at Work) (General Duties of Self-Employed Persons) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1637), art. 1, Sch. para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/917/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:37:05.747921+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."
}