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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/section-6.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/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Decision-makers",
  "text": "(1) This section is about the provision about decision-makers that regulations under section 2 or 4 may or must (among other things) contain.\n(2) In this Part, “decision-maker” means a person who is authorised or required to take a decision described in section 3(2)(c) (authorisation) or 5(3)(b) (approval).\n(3) The regulations may make provision about the appointment of a decision-maker.\n(4) The regulations may make provision enabling or requiring a decision-maker to suspend or revoke a decision.\n(5) The regulations may confer powers on a decision-maker for the purpose of monitoring compliance with conditions for authorisation or approval (“monitoring powers”) (and see section 8 for provision about enforcement of requirements imposed in exercise of those powers).\n(6) The monitoring powers that may be conferred on a decision-maker include powers to require the provision of documents or information (but such powers are subject to the restrictions in section 9 as well as any restrictions included in the regulations).\n(7) The regulations must make provision about the rights of persons affected by the exercise of a decision-maker’s functions under the regulations and such provision may include (among other things)—\n(a) provision about the review of decision-makers’ decisions;\n(b) provision about appeals to a court or tribunal.\n(8) The regulations may make provision about complaints, including provision requiring a decision-maker to implement procedures for the handling of complaints.\n(9) The regulations may make provision enabling or requiring a decision-maker to publish, or provide to a specified person, specified documents or information relating to the exercise of the decision-maker’s functions.\n(10) The regulations may make provision for a decision-maker to arrange for its monitoring powers to be exercised by another person.\n(11) The regulations may—\n(a) provide for functions under the regulations to be exercisable by more than one decision-maker (whether jointly or concurrently);\n(b) where functions of decision-makers are exercisable concurrently—\n(i) provide for one of the decision-makers to be the lead decision-maker;\n(ii) require the other decision-makers to consult the lead decision-maker before exercising the functions in a particular case;\n(iii) provide for the lead decision-maker to give directions as to which decision-maker is to exercise a function in a particular case.\n(12) The regulations may make provision enabling or requiring a decision-maker—\n(a) to produce guidance about how it proposes to exercise its functions under the regulations (including provision enabling or requiring decision-makers with functions exercisable jointly or concurrently to produce joint guidance),\n(b) to publish the guidance, and\n(c) to provide copies to specified persons.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 142(1)(2)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at 20.8.2025 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2025/904, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18/section/6",
    "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."
}