{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hatches-and-lifting-plant-regulations-1988/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hatches-and-lifting-plant-regulations-1988/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1639",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Hatches and Lifting Plant) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-hatches-and-lifting-plant-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Lifting Plant",
  "text": "The employer and the master shall ensure that any lifting plant is not used unless it has been thoroughly examined by a competent person:\n(a) at least once in the preceding 12 month period; and\n(b) following a test in accordance with regulation 7.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1639/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:49.003284+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."
}