Posted By Ken Dickson
I've been having a read of Reg 9 of LOLER. It appears that Reg 9(4), because of the way it is punctuated more that the words used, actually prohibits the disposal of lifting equipment.

Reg 9(4)(b) allows for the sourcing lifting equipment as long as it is accompanied by evidence of the last statutory inspection. Reg9(4)(a) does not include the qualification of the inclusion of evidence of statutory inspection allowing legal disposal, by sale or otherwise. If the qualification in 9(4)(b) referring to the record of statutory inspection applied equally to 9(4)(a), it would be written in a separate unnumbered paragraph at the end of the regulation, as in Reg 9(1), (2), and (3).

Therefore Reg9(4)(a) specifically makes it unlawful to allow lifting equipment to be disposed of in any way, and yet this cannot possibly be the case.

Comments?