{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/304",
  "legislation_title": "Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "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": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in operation at 20.9.1999, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/304",
      "affecting_title": "Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/304/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:18:50.078422+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."
}