{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-40.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/494",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Contingency Planning) (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Sensitive information – certificates in relation to national security",
  "text": "(1) A certificate signed by a member of the Scottish Executive certifying that disclosure of information to the public would adversely affect national security is conclusive evidence of that fact.\n(2) A certificate under paragraph (1) may be given in relation to specific information or to information of a specified kind 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 member of the Scottish Executive as a true copy of a certificate issued by a member of the Scottish Executive under paragraph (1) shall in any legal proceedings be sufficient evidence (or in England and Wales evidence) of that certificate.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 40 in force at 14.11.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/494/regulation/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:54.789088+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."
}