{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-2008/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-2008/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1597",
  "legislation_title": "The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Health And Safety\nMade 19th June 2008\nLaid before Parliament 23rd June 2008\nComing into force 29th December 2009\nThe Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to machinery, including component parts of machines, components or equipment to be attached to or used with machines, and sub-assemblies to be incorporated into or assembled with machines, and in relation to measures relating to lifts and the safety components for use in lifts.\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/1679 (machinery etc) and S.I. 1996/1912 (lifts etc)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c.68."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations modified (E.W.S.) (19.6.2021) by The Conformity Assessment (Mutual Recognition Agreements) and Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/730), regs. 1, 4, Sch. 1 para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1597/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:29:27.122747+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."
}