{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aquatic-animal-health-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aquatic-animal-health-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/85",
  "legislation_title": "The Aquatic Animal Health (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aquatic-animal-health-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Registration",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence to operate a non-commercial installation, a put and take fishery, or a specialist transport business unless it is registered by the competent authority.\n(2) An application for registration must be in such form and contain such information as the competent authority may reasonably require.\n(3) On receipt of the information, the competent authority must–\n(a) undertake the registration; and\n(b) serve the operator with a written notice of a registration number.\n(4) An operator must notify the competent authority in writing of any change in the information provided under paragraph (2) within 30 days of the change.\n(5) It is an offence to fail to comply with paragraph (4).\n(6) It is an offence for a person to provide information to the competent authority that is false, and which that person knows or suspects is false.\n(7) This regulation does not apply where a non-commercial installation or a put and take fishery is required to be authorised by virtue of regulation 5(1) and (4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 12(1) substituted (2.12.2011) by The Aquatic Animal Health (Miscellaneous Modifications) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/427), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 12(7) substituted (2.12.2011) by The Aquatic Animal Health (Miscellaneous Modifications) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/427), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/85/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:02:47.247705+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."
}