{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workplace-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1992/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workplace-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1992/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Cleanliness and waste materials",
  "text": "(1) Every workplace and the furniture, furnishings and fittings therein shall be kept sufficiently clean.\n(2) The surfaces of the floors, walls and ceilings of all workplaces inside buildings shall be capable of being kept sufficiently clean.\n(3) So far as is reasonably practicable, waste materials shall not be allowed to accumulate in a workplace except in suitable receptacles.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 1.1.1993 for specified purposes and 1.1.1996 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3004/regulation/9",
    "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."
}