{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetic-manipulation-regulations-1989/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetic-manipulation-regulations-1989/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1810",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetic Manipulation Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetic-manipulation-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Risk assessment",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of notifying an individual activity involving genetic manipulation under regulation 5(2)(b) or determining whether the activity is to be assessed as falling into containment levels 1 or 2 or as warranting only the use of good large-scale practice as the case may be and is therefore an activity to which regulation 5(4) applies, the person carrying out the activity shall carry out a risk assessment of the intended activity by the approved method.\n(2) The person carrying out the activity shall establish a committee for the purpose of advising him in relation to any risk assessment mentioned in regulation 6(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1810/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:36:32.384287+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."
}