{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-data-retention-regulations-2014/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-data-retention-regulations-2014/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111118894",
  "legislation_title": "The Data Retention Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-data-retention-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Disclosure of retained data",
  "text": "(1) A public telecommunications operator must put in place adequate security systems (including technical and organisational measures) governing access to communications data retained by virtue of section 1 of the Act in order to protect against any disclosure of a kind which does not fall within section 1(6)(a) of the Act.\n(2) A public telecommunications operator who retains communications data by virtue of section 1 of the Act must retain the data in such a way that it can be transmitted without undue delay in response to requests.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111118894/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:12:21.160280+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."
}