{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workplace-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1992/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workplace-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1992/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3004",
  "legislation_title": "The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workplace-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations shall come into force on 1st January 1993.\n(3) Regulations 5 to 27 and the Schedules shall come into force on 1st January 1996 with respect to any workplace or part of a workplace which is not—\n(a) a new workplace; or\n(b) a modification, an extension or a conversion.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.1.1993, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3004/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:10:50.351539+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."
}