{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-gathering-powers-relevant-data-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-gathering-powers-relevant-data-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1811",
  "legislation_title": "The Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-gathering-powers-relevant-data-amendment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) Regulations 2012",
  "text": "After regulation 11 insert –\n“Merchant acquirers etc\n11A. (1) The relevant data for a data-holder of the type described in paragraph 13A of Schedule 23 are—\n(a) in relation to a retailer, information relating to payment card transactions recorded against a merchant account, including the currency these payment card transactions were made in;\n(b) the reference number of the account into which payments are made by the relevant data-holder to the retailer and, where necessary for identifying the account, the branch where the account is held;\n(c) any unique identifier which has been allocated to a retailer, for the purposes of identifying the retailer, as part of the business arrangement between the relevant data-holder and the retailer;\n(d) any identifier which has been allocated to a retailer, for the purposes of classifying the trade of the retailer, as part of the business arrangement between the relevant data-holder and the retailer;\n(e) any unique identifier which has been allocated to a retailer’s merchant account, for the purposes of identifying this merchant account, as part of the business arrangement between the relevant data-holder and the retailer;\n(f) the name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, website address and VAT number (“relevant details”) of a retailer and, if different, the relevant details associated with a merchant account.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“merchant account” means an account held by a retailer with the relevant data-holder, by reference to which the amount due to be paid by the relevant data-holder to the retailer in settlement of payment card transactions is calculated; and\n“VAT number” means “registration number” for the purposes of paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the Value Added Tax Regulations 1995.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "SI 1995/2518, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1811/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:15.960766+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."
}