{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-social-services-regulations-1989/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-social-services-regulations-1989/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Personal Files (Social Services) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-social-services-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Request for information",
  "text": "A local social services authority shall not be obliged under regulation 2 to inform an individual or to give access to any information, except in response to a request in writing and on payment of such fee (not exceeding £10) as they may require; but a request under both sub-paragraphs of regulation 2(1) shall be treated as a single request and a request to be informed under sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 2(1) shall, in the absence of any indication to the contrary, be treated as extending also to being given access to any personal information under sub-paragraph (b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/206/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:49:59.627506+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}