{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-market-integrity-and-transparency-enforcement-etc-regulations-2013/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-market-integrity-and-transparency-enforcement-etc-regulations-2013/regulation-52.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1389",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Market Integrity and Transparency) (Enforcement etc.) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-market-integrity-and-transparency-enforcement-etc-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Limitation on power to require documents",
  "text": "(1) A person may not be required under these Regulations to produce, disclose or permit the inspection of protected items.\n(2) “Protected items” means—\n(a) communications between a professional legal adviser (“LA”) and LA's client or any person representing LA's client which fall within paragraph (3);\n(b) communications between LA, LA's client or any person representing LA's client and any other person which fall within paragraph (3) (as a result of sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph);\n(c) items which—\n(i) are enclosed with, or referred to in, such communications;\n(ii) fall within paragraph (3); and\n(iii) are in the possession of a person entitled to possession of them.\n(3) A communication or item falls within this paragraph if it is made—\n(a) in connection with the giving of legal advice to the client; or\n(b) in connection with, or in contemplation of, legal proceedings and for the purposes of those proceedings.\n(4) A communication or item is not a protected item if it is held with the intention of furthering a criminal purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1389/regulation/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:53.655058+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."
}