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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-transparency-ec-directive-regulations-2009/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-transparency-ec-directive-regulations-2009/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2331",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Transparency (EC Directive) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-transparency-ec-directive-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Retention of records by public undertakings",
  "text": "(1) A public undertaking shall retain the records which are required to be maintained under regulation 3(1) from the time that the public funds are provided until a period of five years has elapsed from the last day of the financial year in which the public funds were last used.\n(2) A public undertaking shall retain the records which are required to be maintained under regulation 3(4) from the time that the public funds are used until a period of five years has elapsed from the last day of the financial year in which the public funds were last used.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2331/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:06:20.579443+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."
}