{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-rights-of-entry-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-rights-of-entry-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2535",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Safety (Rights of Entry) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-safety-rights-of-entry-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the relevant authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 18(9) of the Gas Act 1986; and\n“working day” does not include a Saturday, Sunday or a bank or other public holiday.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n(a) any reference to an officer authorised by a public gas transporter; and\n(b) where the relevant authority is a public gas transporter, any reference to an officer authorised by such authority, includes a reference to any officer authorised by another such transporter with whom the transporter or authority has made arrangements for officers authorised by the other transporter to discharge any functions under these Regulations of officers authorised by the transporter or authority.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n(a) any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation in these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) any reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2535/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:34:37.501191+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."
}