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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-payment-accounts-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111140697",
  "legislation_title": "The Payment Accounts Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-payment-accounts-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Issuing the designation certificate",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) an application has been made under paragraph 2;\n(b) the applicant has paid any fee charged by virtue of paragraph 4(1); and\n(c) the Regulator is satisfied that the requirements of regulation 15(2) are met with respect to the switching service to which the application relates;\nthe Regulator may issue a designation certificate declaring the switching service to be an alternative arrangement (and identifying the operator of that switching service).\n(2) A designation certificate must state the date on which it comes into effect.\n(3) Where the Regulator refuses an application for a designation certificate, it must give the applicant a written notice to that effect stating the reasons for the refusal and the right of appeal provided for in paragraph 12.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111140697/schedule/4/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:09:03.167623+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."
}