{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-sharp-instruments-in-healthcare-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-sharp-instruments-in-healthcare-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/645",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-sharp-instruments-in-healthcare-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“healthcare contractor” means an employer whose main activity is not the management, organisation or provision of healthcare, but who provides services under contract to a healthcare employer;\n“healthcare employer” means an employer whose main activity is the management, organisation and provision of healthcare;\n“injury” includes infection;\n“medical sharp” means an object or instrument necessary for the exercise of specific healthcare activities, which is able to cut, prick or cause injury;\n“safer sharp” means a medical sharp that is designed and constructed to incorporate a feature or mechanism which prevents or minimises the risk of accidental injury from cutting or pricking the skin.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/645/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:00:27.656714+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."
}