# The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981, Regulation 5: Duty of relevant self-employed person to provide first-aid equipment

Extent: E+W+S

(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/917/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-first-aid-regulations-1981/regulation-5
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