{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/18",
  "legislation_title": "Data (Use and Access) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Trust mark for use by registered persons",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may designate a mark for use in the course of providing, or offering to provide, digital verification services.\n(2) A mark designated under this section must be published by the Secretary of State.\n(3) A mark designated under this section may not be used by a person in the course of providing, or offering to provide, digital verification services unless the person is registered in the DVS register in respect of those digital verification services.\n(4) The Secretary of State may enforce subsection (3) in civil proceedings for an injunction or, in Scotland, an interdict.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 50 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 142(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 50 in force at 1.12.2025 by S.I. 2025/1213, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18/section/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:53.494367+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."
}