Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These regulations replace and update the particulars which must be recorded following specified tests, tests and examinations, tests and thorough examinations and thorough examinations of lifting plant and equipment (regulation 2 and Schedule 1).
The regulations also modify the provisions under which the specified particulars must be recorded and the Docks Regulations 1988 so as to allow records to be kept in a manner which does not require the use of writing but which is equally secure (regulations 4 and 5 and Schedule 2).
The Regulations contain savings provisions in respect of records, certificates, registers or reports made, kept or sent following a test, examinations etc. carried out before the coming into force of these Regulations (regulation 6).
Instruments prescribing forms of record or particulars which are replaced by these Regulations, together with Orders which prescribe forms in relation to docks but which no longer have effect, are revoked (regulation 7 and Schedule 3).