{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/279",
  "legislation_title": "The Work at Height Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations –\n“the 1978 Order” means the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;\n“access” and “egress” include ascent and descent;\n“construction work” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 ; ;\n“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland;\n“fragile surface” means a surface which would be liable to fail if any reasonably foreseeable loading were to be applied to it;\n“ladder” includes a fixed ladder and a stepladder;\n“line” includes rope, chain or webbing;\n“the Management Regulations” means the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000;\n“personal fall protection system” means –\n(a)a fall prevention, work restraint, work positioning, fall arrest or rescue system, other than a system in which the only safeguards are collective protection measures; or\n(b)rope access and positioning techniques;\n“suitable” means suitable in any respect which it is reasonably foreseeable will affect the safety of any person;\n“territorial sea” means the territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Northern Ireland and “within the territorial sea” includes on, over and under it;\n“work at height” means –\n(a)work in any place, including a place at or below ground level;\n(b)obtaining access to or egress from such place while at work, except by a staircase in a permanent workplace,\nwhere, if measures required by these Regulations were not taken, a person could fall a distance liable to cause personal injury;\n“work equipment” means any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work (whether exclusively or not) and includes anything to which regulation 8 and Schedules 3 to 7 apply;\n“working platform” –\n(a)means any platform used as a place of work or as a means of access to or egress from a place of work;\n(b)includes any scaffold, suspended scaffold, cradle, mobile platform, trestle, gangway, gantry and stairway which is so used.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to the keeping of a report or copy of a report or plan shall include reference to its being kept in a form –\n(a) in which it is capable of being reproduced as a printed copy when required;\n(b) which is secure from loss or unauthorised interference.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (9.7.2007) by The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (revoked) 2007 (S.R. 2007/291), reg. 1, Sch. 6 para. 9 (with regs. 3, 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.8.2016) by The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/146), reg. 1, Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 11.7.2005, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No. 388, as amended by S.R. 2001 No. 348 and S.R. 2003 No. 454"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/279/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:52:03.041531+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."
}