{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/article-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/article-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3231",
  "legislation_title": "The Export Control Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008",
  "path": "article/28",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Registration with the Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) Not later than 30 days after—\n(a) any person first does any act under the authority of a general licence granted by the Secretary of State that does not provide otherwise;\n(b) any person established in the United Kingdom first does any act under the authority of the general export authorisation,\nthe person in question shall give to the Secretary of State written notice of their name and the address at which copies of the records referred to in article 29(1) ... of this Order or the record-keeping provision of the dual-use Regulation may be inspected by any person authorised by the Secretary of State or the Commissioners under article 31.\n(2) A person who has given to the Secretary of State written notice of particulars under paragraph (1) shall, not later than 30 days after any change in those particulars, give to the Secretary of State notice of the changed particulars.\n(3) In this article, the “record-keeping provision” means—\n(a) for the assimilated dual-use Regulation, Article 20(1);\n(b) for the EU dual-use Regulation, Article 27(1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 28(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/137), regs. 1, 4(19) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1502, regs. 2(3), 7(6)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 28(1) omitted (22.2.2017) by virtue of The Export Control (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/85), arts. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 28(1) substituted (7.12.2022) by The Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1300), regs. 1(1), 6(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 28(3) inserted (7.12.2022) by The Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1300), regs. 1(1), 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in art. 28(3)(a) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 4(2)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3231/article/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:20:03.100935+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}