{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shipbuilding-and-ship-repairing-regulations-1960/regulation-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shipbuilding-and-ship-repairing-regulations-1960/regulation-79.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1960/1932",
  "legislation_title": "The Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shipbuilding-and-ship-repairing-regulations-1960",
  "path": "regulation/79",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Stretchers, ambulances and ambulance rooms, etc",
  "text": "(1) In every shipyard there shall be provided and kept readily available—\n(a) a sufficient number of suitably constructed sling stretchers or other similar appliances for raising injured persons; and\n(b) a sufficient number of carrying or wheel stretchers; and\n(c) a sufficient supply of suitable reviving apparatus and oxygen,\nand the stretchers, appliances and apparatus so provided shall be properly maintained.\n(2) In every shipyard there shall always be readily available during working hours a responsible person or responsible persons whose duty it is to summon an ambulance or other means of transport if needed in cases of accident or illness. Legible copies of a notice indicating that person or, as the case may be, those persons shall be affixed in prominent positions in every shipyard.\n(3) In every shipyard other than a public dry dock—\n(a) in which the number of persons employed normally exceeds five hundred; or\n(b) in which the number of persons employed normally exceeds one hundred and which is more than ten miles from a hospital,\nthere shall be provided and maintained in good order and in clean condition a properly constructed ambulance room containing at least the equipment specified in the Third Schedule to these Regulations. The room shall be used only for the purpose of treatment and rest and shall be in the charge of a suitably qualified person who shall always be readily available during working hours, and a record shall be kept of all cases of accident or sickness treated at the room.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1960/1932/regulation/79",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T00:42:05.315689+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."
}