{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-of-injuries-diseases-and-dangerous-occurrences-regulations-1995/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-of-injuries-diseases-and-dangerous-occurrences-regulations-1995/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3163",
  "legislation_title": "The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-of-injuries-diseases-and-dangerous-occurrences-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Reporting of cases of disease",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) and to regulation 10, where—\n(a) a person at work suffers from any of the occupational diseases specified in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 3 and his work involves one of the activities specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Part; or\n(b) a person at an offshore workplace suffers from any of the diseases specified in Part II of Schedule 3,\nthe responsible person shall forthwith send a report thereof to the relevant enforcing authority on a form approved for the purposes of this regulation, unless he forthwith makes a report thereof to the Executive by some other means so approved.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply only if—\n(a) in the case of an employee, the responsible person has received a written statement prepared by a registered medical practitioner diagnosing the disease as one of those specified in Schedule 3; or\n(b) in the case of a self-employed person, that person has been informed, by a registered medical practitioner, that he is suffering from a disease so specified.\n(3) In the case of a self-employed person, it shall be a sufficient compliance with paragraph (1) if that person makes arrangements for the report to be sent to the relevant enforcing authority by some other person.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.4.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/3163",
      "affecting_title": "The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3163/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T03:33:20.958382+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."
}