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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-1992/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Required characteristics of the genetically modified micro-organism",
  "text": "(1) The genetically modified micro-organism should be non-pathogenic.\nThis requirement is reasonably assured by compliance with all the requirements above.\n(2) (a) The genetically modified micro-organism should be as safe (to man and the environment) as the recipient or parental strains (applicable only for Type A operations);\n(b) the genetically modified micro-organisms should be as safe in the reactor or fermentor as the recipient or parental strains, but with limited survivability and/or replicability outside the reactor or fermenter without adverse consequences in the environment (applicable only for Type B operations).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "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/schedule/2/paragraph/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."
}