{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/excise-warehousing-etc-regulations-1988/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/excise-warehousing-etc-regulations-1988/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/809",
  "legislation_title": "The Excise Warehousing (Etc.) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/excise-warehousing-etc-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Variation of provisions at request of occupier or proprietor",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioners may, if they see fit, consent in writing to an application by an occupier or proprietor for variation of any condition, restriction or requirement contained in or arising under regulations 11 to 24 below, and may make that consent subject to compliance with such other condition, restriction or requirement (as the case may be) as may be agreed by them and the applicant in writing.\n(2) Where under paragraph (1) above any condition or restriction is varied or another is substituted for it, then, if the varied or substituted condition or restriction is one—\n(a) subject to which goods may be deposited in, secured in, kept in or removed from an excise warehouse or made available there to their owner for any prescribed purpose; or\n(b) subject to which an operation may be carried out on goods in an excise warehouse,\nbreach of the varied or substituted condition or restriction shall give rise to forfeiture of those goods, provided that breach of the original condition or restriction would have given rise to forfeiture.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations, as they had effect immediately before IP completion day, continued (N.I.) (31.12.2020) with respect to excise goods by The Excise Duties (Northern Ireland Miscellaneous Modifications and Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1559), regs. 1(1), 100(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.6.1988, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/809/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:07:04.268234+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."
}