{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-regulations-2005/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-regulations-2005/regulation-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2042",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Contingency Planning) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Sensitive information – certificates in relation to national security",
  "text": "(1) A certificate signed by a Minister of the Crown certifying that disclosure of information to the public would, or would be likely to, adversely affect national security is conclusive evidence of that fact.\n(2) A certificate under paragraph (1) may identify the information to which it applies by means of a general description and may be expressed to have prospective effect.\n(3) A document purporting to be a certificate under paragraph (1) shall be received in evidence and deemed to be such a certificate unless the contrary is proved.\n(4) A document which purports to be certified by or on behalf of a Minister of the Crown as a true copy of a certificate issued by that Minister under paragraph (1) shall in any legal proceedings be evidence (or in Scotland, sufficient evidence) of that certificate.\n(5) The power conferred by paragraph (1) on a Minister of the Crown shall not be exercisable except by a Minister who is a member of the Cabinet or by the Attorney General, the Advocate General for Scotland or the Attorney General for Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2042/regulation/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:55:06.271527+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."
}