{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-1889/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-1889/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2005/1889",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1889/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on controls of cash entering or leaving the Community",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-1889",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation:\n1..‘HMRC’ means Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs;\n2..‘cash’ means:\n(a)bearer-negotiable instruments including monetary instruments in bearer form such as travellers cheques, negotiable instruments (including cheques, promissory notes and money orders) that are either in bearer form, endorsed without restriction, made out to a fictitious payee, or otherwise in such form that title thereto passes upon delivery and incomplete instruments (including cheques, promissory notes and money orders) signed, but with the payee's name omitted;\n(b)currency (banknotes and coins that are in circulation as a medium of exchange).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Cash Controls (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/712), regs. 1(1), 2(3) (with reg. 1(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2005/1889/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:54:08.503877+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."
}