{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024-alternative-dispute-resolution-information-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024-alternative-dispute-resolution-information-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/293",
  "legislation_title": "The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (Alternative Dispute Resolution) (Information) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024-alternative-dispute-resolution-information-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024;\n“the ADR authority” means—\n(a) any person on which functions are conferred by regulations made under section 307 of the Act; or\n(b) where there is no such person, the Secretary of State;\n“durable medium” means paper or email, or any other medium that—\n(a) allows information to be addressed to the recipient;\n(b) enables the recipient to store the information in a way accessible for future reference for a period that is long enough for the purposes of the information; and\n(c) allows the unchanged reproduction of the information stored.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/293/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:04:11.249424+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."
}