{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ozone-depleting-substances-regulations-2015/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ozone-depleting-substances-regulations-2015/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/168",
  "legislation_title": "The Ozone-Depleting Substances Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ozone-depleting-substances-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Qualifications and supervision",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (5), no person may carry out any relevant work unless that person is competent to do so.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (6), no person may carry out work with methyl bromide unless that person is competent to do so.\n(3) The employer of a person employed to carry out relevant work must ensure that paragraph (1) is complied with.\n(4) The employer of a person employed to carry out work with methyl bromide must ensure that paragraph (2) is complied with.\n(5) A person who is not competent to carry out relevant work may carry out such work if the person does so—\n(a) under the supervision of a person who is so competent; and\n(b) with a view to obtaining—\n(i) a qualification referred to in regulation 4(1)(a); or\n(ii) an in-house qualification.\n(6) A person who is not competent to carry out work with methyl bromide may carry out such work if the person does so under the supervision of a person who is so competent, and—\n(a) with a view to—\n(i) obtaining the Certificate of Proficiency referred to in regulation 4(1)(c), and\n(ii) completing any of the modules listed in Schedule 3; or\n(b) if the person has obtained that Certificate of Proficiency, with a view to completing any of the modules listed in Schedule 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(5)(b)(i) substituted (W.) (1.1.2025) by The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) (Extension to Switzerland and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1183), regs. 1, 8(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(6)(a)(i) substituted (W.) (1.1.2025) by The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) (Extension to Switzerland and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1183), regs. 1, 8(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/168/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:34.119603+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."
}