{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-gathering-powers-relevant-data-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-gathering-powers-relevant-data-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/979",
  "legislation_title": "The Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-gathering-powers-relevant-data-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) Regulations 2012",
  "text": "For regulation 2 substitute—\n“2. In these Regulations—\n“company registration number” has the same meaning as “registered number” in section 1066 of the Companies Act 2006;\n“identifying information” means information which identifies a person or an account and includes—\n(a) any unique or generic identifier or reference number allocated by, or used by, the data-holder for the purposes of identifying a person or account, or classifying the trade of a person or account;\n(b) name, address (including email, website, and any other electronic address), and telephone number associated with a person or account;\n(c) company registration number or national insurance number, unique taxpayer reference, VAT number, any other unique government-issued identifier associated with a person or account;\n(d) in relation to a person, whether that person is an individual, partnership, limited company, or has any other legal status;\n“Schedule 23” means Schedule 23 to the Finance Act 2011;\n“VAT number” has the same meaning as “registration number” in paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the Value Added Tax Regulations 1995.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 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/2016/979/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:30.081116+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."
}