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Regulation 7 Lifting Plant

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(1)

The employer and the master shall ensure that no lifting plant is used:

(a)

after manufacture or installation, or

(b)

after any repair or modification which is likely to alter the safe working load or affect the lifting plant’s strength or stability,

without first being suitably tested by a competent person except in the case of a rope sling which has been manufactured from rope which has been tested by a competent person and spliced in a safe manner.

(2)

After 1 January 1993 the employer and the master shall ensure that a lifting appliance is not used unless it has been suitably tested by a competent person within the preceding five years.