{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-gathering-powers-relevant-data-regulations-2012/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-gathering-powers-relevant-data-regulations-2012/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/847",
  "legislation_title": "The Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-gathering-powers-relevant-data-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "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": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 substituted (1.11.2016) by The Data-gathering Powers (Relevant Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/979), regs. 1, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/847/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:36:31.920296+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."
}