{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/provision-and-use-of-work-equipment-regulations-1998/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/provision-and-use-of-work-equipment-regulations-1998/regulation-26.json",
  "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/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Rolling over of mobile work equipment",
  "text": "(1) Every employer shall ensure that where there is a risk to an employee riding on mobile work equipment from its rolling over, it is minimised by—\n(a) stabilising the work equipment;\n(b) a structure which ensures that the work equipment does no more than fall on its side;\n(c) a structure giving sufficient clearance to anyone being carried if it overturns further than that; or\n(d) a device giving comparable protection.\n(2) Where there is a risk of anyone being carried by mobile work equipment being crushed by its rolling over, the employer shall ensure that it has a suitable restraining system for him.\n(3) This regulation shall not apply to a fork-lift truck having a structure described in sub-paragraph (b) or (c) of paragraph (1).\n(4) Compliance with this regulation is not required where—\n(a) it would increase the overall risk to safety;\n(b) it would not be reasonably practicable to operate the mobile work equipment in consequence; or\n(c) in relation to an item of work equipment provided for use in the undertaking or establishment before 5th December 1998 it would not be reasonably practicable.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 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/26",
    "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."
}