{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-special-procedures-and-outward-processing-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-18A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-special-procedures-and-outward-processing-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-18A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1249",
  "legislation_title": "The Customs (Special Procedures and Outward Processing) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-special-procedures-and-outward-processing-eu-exit-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/18A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18A",
  "heading": "Authorisation as a free zone business",
  "text": "(1) An approval notification issued in relation to an authorisation as a free zone business must specify—\n(a) the free zone or free zones in which—\n(i) goods declared for a free zone procedure may be kept; and\n(ii) any other free zone activity may take place;\n(b) the authorised person;\n(c) if the person is authorised to declare goods for a free zone procedure, that they are so authorised; and\n(d) any free zone activities authorised.\n(2) An authorisation to declare goods for a free zone procedure is subject to the requirements set out in regulation 18B and the conditions provided for in regulation 18C.\n(3) An authorisation to carry out a free zone activity is subject to the conditions provided for in regulation 18C.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4 Ch. 1 Section 2 inserted (8.11.2021) by The Free Zones (Customs, Excise and Value Added Tax) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1156), regs. 1, 3(13)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1249/regulation/18A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:51:34.078914+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."
}