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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/low-voltage-electrical-equipment-safety-regulations-1989/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Low Voltage Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/low-voltage-electrical-equipment-safety-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Requirement for electrical equipment to be safe etc.",
  "text": "(1) Electrical equipment shall be–\n(a) safe; and\n(b) constructed in accordance with principles generally accepted within the member States of the European Economic Community as constituting good engineering practice in relation to safety matters.\n(2) Subject to regulations 6 and 7 below, in determining whether electrical equipment satisfies the requirements of paragraph (1) above due regard shall be had to the principal elements of the safety objectives for electrical equipment in Annex I to the low voltage Directive as set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.\n(3) In determining whether electrical equipment satisifies the requirements of paragraph (1) above, no regard shall be had to any liability of the equipment to cause radio-electrical interference.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/728/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:45:04.647668+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."
}