{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-first-aid-regulations-1981/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-first-aid-regulations-1981/regulation-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Cases where these Regulations do not apply",
  "text": "These Regulations shall not apply—\n(a) where the Diving at Work Regulations 1997 apply;\n(b) where the Merchant Shipping (Medical Scales) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1974 apply;\n(c) where the Merchant Shipping (Medical Stores) Regulations 1986 apply;\n(d) on vessels which are registered outside the United Kingdom;\n(e) to a mine of coal, stratified ironstone, shale or fireclay;\n(f) in respect of the armed forces of the Crown and any force to which any provision of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 applies;\n(g) where the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989 apply.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(a) substituted (1.4.1998) by The Diving at Work Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2776), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 7(c) substituted (13.9.1990) by The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1671), regs. 1, 8(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 7(g) added (13.9.1990) by The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1671), regs. 1, 8(b) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 1.7.1982, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/917/regulation/7",
    "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."
}