{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workplace-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
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  "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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“mine” means a mine within the meaning of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954;\n“disabled person” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995;\n“new workplace” means a workplace used for the first time as a workplace after31st December 1992;\n“public road” means (in England and Wales) a highway maintainable at public expense within the meaning of section 329 of the Highways Act 1980 and (in Scotland) a public road within the meaning assigned to that term by section 151 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;\n“quarry” means a quarry within the meaning of the Quarries Regulations 1999;\n“traffic route” means a route for pedestrian traffic, vehicles or both and includes any stairs, staircase, fixed ladder, doorway, gateway, loading bay or ramp;\n“workplace” means, subject to paragraph (2), any premises or part of premises which are not domestic premises and are made available to any person as a place of work, and includes—\n(a)any place within the premises to which such person has access while at work; and\n(b)any room, lobby, corridor, staircase, road or other place used as a means of access to or egress from that place of work or where facilities are provided for use in connection with the place of work other than a public road.\n...\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations, except in paragraph (1), to a modification, an extension or a conversion is a reference, as the case may be, to a modification, an extension or a conversion of a workplace started after 31st December 1992.\n(3) Any requirement that anything done or provided in pursuance of these Regulations shall be suitable shall be construed to include a requirement that it is suitable for any person in respect of whom such thing is so done or provided.\n(4) Any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation in or Schedule to these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (26.10.1995 for specified purposes, 26.7.1998 in so far as not already in force) by The Quarries Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2036), reg. 1, Sch. 3 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (17.9.2002) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2174), regs. 1, 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.1.2000) by The Quarries Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2024), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) revoked (17.9.2002) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2174), regs. 1, 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.1.1993, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 54."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3004/regulation/2",
    "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."
}