{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-health-and-safety-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-health-and-safety-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/860",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Health and Safety) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-health-and-safety-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992",
  "text": "(1) The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of this regulation.\n(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 4, before the words “Every employer”, there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (1A),”.\n(3) After paragraph (1), there shall be added the following paragraph–\n“(1A) Where the characteristics of any policing activity are such that compliance by the relevant officer with the requirement in paragraph (1) would lead to an inevitable conflict with the exercise of police powers or performance of police duties, that requirement shall be complied with so far as is reasonably practicable.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2966, amended by S.I. 1994/3017, 1994/3246."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/860/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:41.563004+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."
}