# The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, Regulation 2: Interpretation

Extent: E+W+S

(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“mine” means a mine within the meaning of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954;
“disabled person” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995;
“new workplace” means a workplace used for the first time as a workplace after31st December 1992;
“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;
“quarry” means a quarry within the meaning of the Quarries Regulations 1999;
“traffic route” means a route for pedestrian traffic, vehicles or both and includes any stairs, staircase, fixed ladder, doorway, gateway, loading bay or ramp;
“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—
(a)any place within the premises to which such person has access while at work; and
(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.
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(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.
(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.
(4) Any reference in these Regulations to—
(a) a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation in or Schedule to these Regulations so numbered; and
(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation in which the reference appears.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3004/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/workplace-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1992/regulation-2
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