{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-uranium-enrichment-technology-prohibition-on-disclosure-regulations-2004/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/011049461X",
  "legislation_title": "The Uranium Enrichment Technology (Prohibition on Disclosure) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-uranium-enrichment-technology-prohibition-on-disclosure-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Withdrawal or variation of authorisations",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may withdraw or vary an authorisation by written notice to each person to whom notice of the authorisation was given under regulation 4(2); and in this regulation, such a person is referred to as an “interested party”.\n(2) A notice given under paragraph (1) shall specify the reasons for the decision to withdraw or vary the authorisation (as the case may be).\n(3) The withdrawal or variation of an authorisation shall take effect for each interested party upon the receipt by him of the notice given under paragraph (1).\n(4) An interested party may make representations to the Secretary of State within 28 days of the date on which the notice is given to him.\n(5) The Secretary of State shall take into account any such representations before reaching a decision whether to set aside or vary the notice given under paragraph (1), and shall give written notice to every interested party of her decision.\n(6) A decision under paragraph (5) shall have immediate effect.\n(7) A decision under paragraph (5) to vary a notice given under paragraph (1) shall not cause any disclosure not to be authorised which would have been authorised if the notice had not been varied.\n(8) This paragraph applies where an interested party, in making representations under paragraph (4)–\n(a) makes any statement or provides any information which is false or misleading in a material particular; or\n(b) omits any information which is material to his representations;\nand the notice given under paragraph (1) is set aside or varied under paragraph (5).\n(9) In any circumstances to which paragraph 8 applies,–\n(a) as regards the interested party, any decision by the Secretary of State under paragraph (5) to set aside or vary the notice shall be void from the time the decision was made;\n(b) as regards any other person, any decision by the Secretary of State under paragraph (5) to set aside or vary the notice shall be void from the time that person knew or should reasonably have become aware of those circumstances.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/011049461X/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:23:43.641669+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."
}