{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-1992/schedule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-1992/schedule-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3073",
  "legislation_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-1992",
  "path": "schedule/5",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "EXCLUDED MACHINERY",
  "text": "Lifting equipment designed and constructed for raising and/or moving persons with or without loads, except for industrial trucks with elevating operator position.\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 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 the member States relating to the typeapproval of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors, as last amended by Directive 88/297/ EEC.\nMachines specially designed and constructed for military or police purposes.",
  "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": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2063",
      "affecting_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/831",
      "affecting_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3073/schedule/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:10:11.744019+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."
}