{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/339",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Notification of contained use involving larger GMOs",
  "text": "(1) A user shall not undertake a contained use involving larger GMOs unless the provisions of this regulation have been complied with.\n(2) A person responsible for the contained use shall submit a notification to the competent authority containing the information specified in Schedule 6.\n(3) The Executive shall send an acknowledgement of receipt to the notifier within 10 working days of the competent authority receiving the notification.\n(4) A user may undertake the contained use if—\n(a) 45 days have elapsed since the acknowledgement of receipt was received, provided that the competent authority has not informed the notifier that the contained use may not be undertaken; or\n(b) the competent authority has agreed in writing that the contained use may commence sooner.\n(5) This regulation shall not apply to a contained use which results in a larger GMO that poses no greater risk to humans than its unmodified parental organism.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in operation at 23.10.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/339/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:00:12.363552+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."
}