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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-1998/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-1998/regulation-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Organisation of lifting operations",
  "text": "(1) Every employer shall ensure that every lifting operation involving lifting equipment is—\n(a) properly planned by a competent person;\n(b) appropriately supervised; and\n(c) carried out in a safe manner.\n(2) In this regulation “lifting operation” means an operation concerned with the lifting or lowering of a load.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 5.12.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2307/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:30.751401+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."
}