The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Specific amendments

23.  For Schedule 5 there shall be substituted—

Regulation 5

“SCHEDULE 5 EXCLUDED MACHINERY

Machinery whose only power source is directly applied manual effort unless it is a machine used for lifting or lowering loads.

Machinery for medical use used in direct contact with patients.

Special equipment for use in fairgrounds and/or amusement parks.

Steam boilers, tanks and pressure vessels.

Machinery specially designed or put into service for nuclear purposes which, in the event of failure, may result in an emission of radioactivity.

Radioactive sources forming part of a machine.

Firearms.

Storage tanks and pipelines for petrol, diesel fuel, inflammable liquids and dangerous substances.

Means of transport, that is vehicles and their trailers intended solely for transporting passengers by air or on road, rail or water networks, as well as means of transport in so far as such means are designed for transporting goods by air, on public road or rail networks or on water. Vehicles used in the mineral extraction industry shall not be excluded.

Seagoing vessels and mobile offshore units together with equipment on board such vessels or units.

Cableways, including funicular railways, for the public or private transportation of persons.

Agricultural and forestry tractors, as defined in Article 1(1) of Council Directive 74/150/EEC of 4th March 1974 on the approximation of the laws of member States relating to the type-approval of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors(1), as last amended by Directive 88/297/EEC(2).

Machines specially designed and constructed for military or police purposes.

Lifts which permanently serve specific levels of buildings and constructions, having a car moving between guides which are rigid and inclined at an angle of more than 15 degrees to the horizontal and designed for the transport of:

• persons,

• persons and goods,

• goods alone if the car is accessible, that is to say, a person may enter it without difficulty, and fitted with controls situated inside the car or within reach of a person inside.

Means of transport of persons using rack and pinion rail mounted vehicles.

Mine winding gear.

Theatre elevators.

Construction site hoists intended for lifting persons or persons and goods.”.

(1)

OJ No. L84, 28.3.74, p.10.

(2)

OJ No. L126, 20.5.88, p.52.