{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manual-handling-operations-regulations-1992/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manual-handling-operations-regulations-1992/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2793",
  "legislation_title": "The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/manual-handling-operations-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exemption certificates",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State for Defence may, in the interests of national security, by a certificate in writing exempt—\n(a) any of the home forces, any visiting force or any headquarters from any requirement imposed by regulation 4 of these Regulations; or\n(b) any member of the home forces, any member of a visiting force or any member of a headquarters from the requirement imposed by regulation 5 of these Regulations;\nand any exemption such as is specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked by the said Secretary of State by a further certificate in writing at any time.\n(2) In this regulation—\n(a) “the home forces” has the same meaning as in section 12(1) of the Visiting Forces Act 1952;\n(b) “headquarters” has the same meaning as in article 3(2) of the Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1965;\n(c) “member of a headquarters” has the same meaning as in paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964; and\n(d) “visiting force” has the same meaning as it does for the purposes of any provision of Part I of the Visiting Forces Act 1952.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 1.1.1993, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1952 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1965/1536, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1964 c. 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2793/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:12:19.488364+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."
}