Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981
1. For regulation 5 of the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981(1) (duty of self-employed person to provide first-aid equipment) substitute—
“Duty of relevant self-employed person to provide first-aid equipment
5.—(1) A relevant self-employed person must provide, or ensure that there is provided, such equipment, if any, as is adequate and appropriate in the circumstances to enable that person to render first-aid to himself or herself while at work.
(2) For the purpose of this regulation “relevant self-employed person” means a self-employed person who conducts an undertaking of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 3(2) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974(2).”.
S.I. 1981/917; to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.
Section 3(2) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c.37) was amended by section 1 of the Deregulation Act 2015. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (General Duties of Self-Employed Persons) (Prescribed Undertakings) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1583) prescribe descriptions of undertakings for the purposes of section 3(2) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (as amended).