{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-agreements-administration-regulations-2012/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1976",
  "legislation_title": "The Climate Change Agreements (Administration) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-agreements-administration-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The Register",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must operate an electronic system for the administration of agreements (“the Register”).\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Secretary of State must take reasonable steps to ensure that the Register is accessible at all times to persons who are entitled to use it.\n(3) The Secretary of State may restrict access to the Register at such times as the Secretary of State considers reasonable to conduct planned downtime or maintenance (including updates and reconfigurations) on the Register.\n(4) The persons who are entitled to use the Register are the administrator, current and prospective account holders and any person appointed on behalf of an account holder to operate an account.\n(5) The administrator may establish administrative rules in relation to the operation of the Register.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Climate Change Agreements (Administration and Eligible Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/813), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Climate Change Agreements (Administration and Eligible Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/813), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(b) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(3) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Climate Change Agreements (Administration and Eligible Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/813), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(c) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(4) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Climate Change Agreements (Administration and Eligible Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/813), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(d) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.10.2012, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1976/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:23:45.300644+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."
}