{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-information-for-employees-regulations-1989/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-information-for-employees-regulations-1989/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/682",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-information-for-employees-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Provision of further information",
  "text": "(1) An employer relying on compliance with regulation 4(1)(a) shall, subject to paragraph (2), ensure that the following information is clearly and indelibly written on the poster in the appropriate space–\n(a) the name of the enforcing authority for the premises where the poster is displayed and the address of the office of that authority for the area in which those premises are situated; and\n(b) the address of the office of the employment medical advisory service for the area in which those premises are situated ; or\n(c) (c) information as to how any of his employees may obtain the information referred to in (a) and (b) above.\n(2) Where there is a change in any of the matters referred to in paragraph (1) it shall be sufficient compliance with that paragraph for the corresponding amendment to the poster to be made within six months from the date thereof.\n(3) An employer who gives to his employee a leaflet pursuant to regulation 4(1)(b) shall give with the leaflet a written notice containing–\n(a) the name of the enforcing authority for the premises where the employee works, and the address of the office of that authority for the area in which those premises are situated; and\n(b) the address of the office of the employment medical advisory service for the area in which those premises are situated ; or\n(c) (c) information as to how any of his employees may obtain the information referred to in (a) and (b) above.\n(4) Where the employee works in more than one location he shall, for the purposes of paragraph (3), be treated as working at the premises from which his work is administered, and if his work is administered from two or more premises, the employer may choose any one of them for the purpose of complying with that paragraph.\n(5) Where an employer relies on compliance with regulation 4(1)(b) and there is a change in any of the matters referred to in paragraph (3) the employer shall within six months of the date thereof give to the employee a written notice specifying the change.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(1)(c) and word inserted (6.4.2009) by The Health and Safety Information for Employees (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/606), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5(3)(c) and word inserted (6.4.2009) by The Health and Safety Information for Employees (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/606), regs. 1(1), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 18.10.1989, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/682/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:45:19.608952+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."
}