LOLER 1998 requires lifting equipment to be thoroughly examined by a competent person — every 6 months for equipment lifting people, every 12 months for most other lifting equipment — with records kept and defects reported. AS/RS cranes and mini-load systems fall squarely under LOLER's scope wherever they're lifting rather than just conveying.
The compliance risk isn't usually the inspection itself; it's tracking when each piece of equipment is next due across a large estate, and proving on demand — to an HSE inspector or after an incident — that every examination actually happened on schedule with a record to show for it.