{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-1992/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-1992/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3217",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Notification of the intention to use premises for activities involving genetic modification for the first time",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation and regulation 10, no person shall undertake any activity involving genetic modification at any premises for the first time, unless he has notified the Executive of his intention to do so at least 90 days in advance or before such shorter time as the Executive may approve and with that notification has furnished the particulars specified in Schedule 4.\n(2) In the case of activities involving the genetic modification of micro-organisms, separate notifications shall be made of an intention to use the premises for activities involving genetically modified micro-organisms of Group I or Group II.\n(3) In the case of activities involving genetically modified micro-organisms of Group II, the premises shall only be used for those activities after the Executive has given its consent.\n(4) In any other case, the use of the premises for the activity may be commenced at or after the end of the period of 90 days, or such shorter period as the Executive may have approved in pursuance of paragraph (1), unless the Executive objects in writing before the end of the relevant period.\n(5) In any case in which a consent is required under paragraph (3), the Executive shall communicate its decision on the application in writing within 90 days after the application was received.\n(6) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent a person from notifying under regulation 9 an individual activity which he intends to undertake in the premises at the same time as making a notification under this regulation; in such a case he shall not commence the activity except in accordance with the time periods specified in this regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/967",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3217/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:32.086650+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."
}