{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2307",
  "legislation_title": "The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1974 Act” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;\n...\n“accessory for lifting” means work lifting equipment for attaching loads to machinery for lifting;\n“EC declaration of conformity declaration of conformity” means a declaration which complies with—\n(a) section A of part 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008;\n(b)Article 12.1 of Council Directive 89/686/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to personal protective equipment; or the requirements for a declaration of conformity in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on personal protective equipment and repealing Council Directive 89/686/EEC; or\n(c) regulation 49 of the Lifts Regulations 2016;\n“employer” except in regulation 3(2) and (3) includes a person to whom the requirements imposed by these Regulations apply by virtue of regulation 3(3)(a) and (b);\n“essential requirements” has the same meaning as in the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998;\n“examination scheme” means a suitable scheme drawn up by a competent person for such thorough examinations of lifting equipment at such intervals as may be appropriate for the purpose described in regulation 9(3);\n“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive;\n“lifting equipment” means work equipment for lifting or lowering loads and includes its attachments used for anchoring, fixing or supporting it;\n“lifting operation” has the meaning given in regulation 8(2);\n“load” includes a person;\n“thorough examination” in relation to a thorough examination under paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of regulation 9—\n(a)means a thorough examination by a competent person;\n(b)where it is appropriate to carry out testing for the purpose described in the paragraph, includes such testing by a competent person as is appropriate for the purpose,\nand “thoroughly examined” shall be construed accordingly;\n“work equipment” means any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work (whether exclusively or not).\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) deleted (29.12.2009) by The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1597), reg. 1(1), Sch. 7 para. 2(a) (with reg. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (17.9.2002) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2174), regs. 1, 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 7 para. 1(2)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (29.12.2009) by The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1597), reg. 1(1), Sch. 7 para. 2(b) (with reg. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 7 para. 1(2)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (8.12.2016) by The Lifts Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1093), regs. 1, 83(8)(a) (with regs. 3-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 5.12.1998, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L399. 30.12.89, p.18; printed in the Schedule to S.I. 1992/3139."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/831."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2306."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
}