{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/provision-and-use-of-work-equipment-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2306",
  "legislation_title": "The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/provision-and-use-of-work-equipment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1974 Act” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;\n“employer” except in regulation 3(2) and (3) includes a person to whom the requirements imposed by these Regulations apply by virtue of regulation 3(3)(a) and (b);\n“essential requirements” means requirements described in regulation 10(1);\n“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive;\n“inspection” in relation to an inspection under paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 6—\n(a) means such visual or more rigorous inspection by a competent person as is appropriate for the purpose described in the paragraph;\n(b) where it is appropriate to carry out testing for the purpose, includes testing the nature and extent of which are appropriate for the purpose;\n“power press” means a press or press brake for the working of metal by means of tools, or for die proving, which is power driven and which embodies a flywheel and clutch;\n“thorough examination” in relation to a thorough examination under paragraph (1), (2), (3) or (4) of regulation 32—\n(a) means a thorough examination by a competent person;\n(b) includes testing the nature and extent of which are appropriate for the purpose described in the paragraph;\n“use” in relation to work equipment means any activity involving work equipment and includes starting, stopping, programming, setting, transporting, repairing, modifying, maintaining, servicing and cleaning;\n“work equipment” means any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work (whether exclusively or not);\nand related expressions shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) Any reference in regulations 32 to 34 or Schedule 3 to a guard or protection device is a reference to a guard or protection device provided for the tools of a power press.\n(3) Any reference in regulation 32 or 33 to a guard or protection device being on a power press shall, in the case of a guard or protection device designed to operate while adjacent to a power press, be construed as a reference to its being adjacent to it.\n(4) Any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 5.12.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2306/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:31.554452+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."
}