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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1663",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
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  "number": "4",
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  "text": "To assign a contained use to the appropriate containment level for the purposes of paragraph 3(i), the person carrying out the risk assessment must—\n(a) first identify for each selected containment measure the column in the applicable table in Schedule 8 having the lowest number in which that selected containment measure is shown as being required, regardless of whether or not such requirement is subject to any qualification;\n(b) then select the highest number of all the columns identified in accordance with sub-paragraph (a); and\n(c) then assign the contained use to the containment level of that highest number.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:11:52.096455+00:00"
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  "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."
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