{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-risk-assessment-records-and-exemptions-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-risk-assessment-records-and-exemptions-regulations-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1106",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Risk Assessment) (Records and Exemptions) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-risk-assessment-records-and-exemptions-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, revocation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Genetically Modified Organisms (Risk Assessment)(Records and Exemptions) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 9th May 1996.\n(2) The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 1993 are hereby revoked.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990, and\n“the Contained Use Regulations” means the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2014.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 1(3) omitted (E.) (1.6.2018) by virtue of The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a); and (W.) (28.3.2019) by virtue of The Rural Affairs, Environment, Fisheries and Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/463), regs. 1(3), 16(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(3) substituted (E.) (1.6.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b); (S.) (15.3.2019) by The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release etc.) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/86), regs. 1(1), 21; and (W.) (28.3.2019) by The Rural Affairs, Environment, Fisheries and Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/463), regs. 1(3), 16(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 9.5.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/15."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1106/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:45:11.633998+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."
}