{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forensic-science-regulator-act-2021/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forensic-science-regulator-act-2021/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/14",
  "legislation_title": "Forensic Science Regulator Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forensic-science-regulator-act-2021",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Completion certificates",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if the Regulator has served a compliance notice on a person under section 6.\n(2) If the Regulator is satisfied that any step specified in the notice has been taken or does not need to be taken the Regulator must issue a certificate to that effect (a “completion certificate”).\n(3) A person on whom a compliance notice is served may at any time apply for a completion certificate.\n(4) Within the period of 14 days beginning with the day after the day on which the Regulator receives such an application the Regulator must send to the person—\n(a) a completion certificate relating to the compliance notice, or\n(b) written notice of the Regulator's decision not to issue such a certificate together with the Regulator's reasons for that decision.\n(5) A compliance notice ceases to have effect to the extent specified in a completion certificate relating to that notice on the date the certificate is issued.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 in force at 2.10.2023 by S.I. 2023/1049, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/14/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:51.481225+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."
}