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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/regulation-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/regulation-47.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111150184",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Exclusion from public registers of information affecting national security",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate authority may direct the regulator that in the interests of national security specified information or information of a specified description must be excluded from a public register.\n(2) The regulator must notify the appropriate authority of any information (other than information relating to a radioactive substances activity) that it excludes from a public register pursuant to such a direction.\n(3) The appropriate authority may direct the regulator that in the interests of national security information of a specified description—\n(a) must be referred to the authority for its determination as to whether or not the information may be included on a public register, and\n(b) must not be included on a public register unless the appropriate authority determines that it may be included.\n(4) A person may give a notice to the appropriate authority stating that, in the person’s opinion, the inclusion of information on a public register would be contrary to the interests of national security.\n(5) A notice under paragraph (4) must specify the information and indicate its apparent nature.\n(6) A person giving a notice under paragraph (4) must at the same time notify the regulator.\n(7) The regulator must not include information notified under paragraph (4) on a public register unless the appropriate authority determines that it may be included.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111150184/regulation/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:07:48.139767+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."
}