{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-amendment-regulations-1994/schedule-2/paragraph-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-amendment-regulations-1994/schedule-2/paragraph-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2063",
  "legislation_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Specific amendments",
  "text": "For Schedule 5 there shall be substituted—\n“SCHEDULE 5\nEXCLUDED MACHINERY\nRegulation 5\nMachinery whose only power source is directly applied manual effort unless it is a machine used for lifting or lowering loads.\nMachinery for medical use used in direct contact with patients.\nSpecial equipment for use in fairgrounds and/or amusement parks.\nSteam boilers, tanks and pressure vessels.\nMachinery specially designed or put into service for nuclear purposes which, in the event of failure, may result in an emission of radioactivity.\nRadioactive sources forming part of a machine.\nFirearms.\nStorage tanks and pipelines for petrol, diesel fuel, inflammable liquids and dangerous substances.\nMeans of transport, that is vehicles and their trailers intended solely for transporting passengers by air or on road, rail or water networks, as well as means of transport in so far as such means are designed for transporting goods by air, on public road or rail networks or on water. Vehicles used in the mineral extraction industry shall not be excluded.\nSeagoing vessels and mobile offshore units together with equipment on board such vessels or units.\nCableways, including funicular railways, for the public or private transportation of persons.\nAgricultural and forestry tractors, as defined in Article 1(1) of Council Directive 74/150/EEC of 4th March 1974 on the approximation of the laws of member States relating to the type-approval of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors, as last amended by Directive 88/297/EEC.\nMachines specially designed and constructed for military or police purposes.\nLifts which permanently serve specific levels of buildings and constructions, having a car moving between guides which are rigid and inclined at an angle of more than 15 degrees to the horizontal and designed for the transport of:\npersons,\npersons and goods,\ngoods alone if the car is accessible, that is to say, a person may enter it without difficulty, and fitted with controls situated inside the car or within reach of a person inside.\nMeans of transport of persons using rack and pinion rail mounted vehicles.\nMine winding gear.\nTheatre elevators.\nConstruction site hoists intended for lifting persons or persons and goods.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L84, 28.3.74, p.10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L126, 20.5.88, p.52."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2063/schedule/2/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:28:10.463288+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."
}