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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-machinery-safety-regulations-2008/schedule-2/part-4",
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  "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": "schedule/2/part/4",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Annex IV: Categories of machinery to which one of the procedures referred to in regulation 11 or 12 must be applied",
  "text": "1.\nCircular saws (single- or multi-blade) for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics or for working with meat and material with similar physical characteristics, of the following types:\n1.1.\nsawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a fixed bed or support with manual feed of the workpiece or with a demountable power feed;\n1.2.\nsawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a manually operated reciprocating saw-bench or carriage;\n1.3.\nsawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a built-in mechanical feed device for the workpieces, with manual loading and/or unloading;\n1.4.\nsawing machinery with movable blade(s) during cutting, having mechanical movement of the blade, with manual loading and/or unloading.\n2.\nHand-fed surface planing machinery for woodworking.\n3.\nThicknessers for one-side dressing having a built-in mechanical feed device, with manual loading and/or unloading for woodworking.\n4.\nBand-saws with manual loading and/or unloading for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics or for working with meat and material with similar physical characteristics, of the following types:\n4.1.\nsawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a fixed or reciprocating-movement bed or support for the workpiece;\n4.2.\nsawing machinery with blade(s) assembled on a carriage with reciprocating motion.\n5.\nCombined machinery of the types referred to in points 1 to 4 and point 7 of this Annex, for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics.\n6.\nHand-fed tenoning machinery with several tool holders for woodworking.\n7.\nHand-fed vertical spindle moulding machinery for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics.\n8.\nPortable chainsaws for woodworking.\n9.\nPresses, including press-brakes, for the cold working of metals, with manual loading and/or unloading, whose movable working parts may have a travel exceeding 6 mm and a speed exceeding 30 mm/s.\n10.\nInjection or compression plastics-moulding machinery with manual loading or unloading.\n11.\nInjection or compression rubber-moulding machinery with manual loading or unloading.\n12.\nMachinery for underground working of the following types:\n12.1.\nlocomotives and brake-vans;\n12.2.\nhydraulic-powered roof supports.\n13.\nManually loaded trucks for the collection of household refuse incorporating a compression mechanism.\n14.\nRemovable mechanical transmission devices including their guards.\n15.\nGuards for removable mechanical transmission devices.\n16.\nVehicle servicing lifts.\n17.\nDevices for the lifting of persons or of persons and goods involving a hazard of falling from a vertical height of more than three metres.\n18.\nPortable cartridge-operated fixing and other impact machinery.\n19.\nProtective devices designed to detect the presence of persons.\n20.\nPower-operated interlocking movable guards designed to be used as safeguards in machinery referred to in points 9, 10 and 11 of this Annex.\n21.\nLogic units to ensure safety functions.\n22.\nRoll-over protective structures (ROPS).\n23.\nFalling-object protective structures (FOPS).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1597/schedule/2/part/4",
    "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."
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