{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accreditation-of-forensic-service-providers-regulations-2018/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accreditation-of-forensic-service-providers-regulations-2018/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1276",
  "legislation_title": "The Accreditation of Forensic Service Providers Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accreditation-of-forensic-service-providers-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Recognition of results",
  "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations, the results of the following are to be regarded as being equally reliable—\n(a) laboratory activity carried out by forensic service providers accredited in accordance with regulation 4(2)(a);\n(b) laboratory activity carried out by forensic service providers accredited in accordance with regulation 4(2)(b);\n(c) laboratory activity carried out in accordance with regulation 4(2A).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 substituted (20.11.2019) by The Accreditation of Forensic Service Providers (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1384), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1276/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:51:16.366831+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."
}