{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organismscontained-use-regulations-2000/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organismscontained-use-regulations-2000/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2831",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms(Contained Use) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organismscontained-use-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Review and recording of risk assessments",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) there is reason to suspect that an assessment is no longer valid; or\n(b) there has been a significant change in the activity involving genetic modification to which an assessment relates,\nthe person undertaking the activity involving genetic modification to which the assessment relates shall ensure that the assessment is reviewed forthwith.\n(2) The person undertaking an activity involving genetic modification—\n(a) shall keep a record of the assessment relating to that activity, and any review of that assessment, for at least 10 years from the date of the cessation of that activity; and\n(b) shall make such record available to the competent authority when requested to do so.\n(3) In this regulation, “assessment” means an assessment carried out for the purposes of regulation 6 or regulation 7.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2831/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:12:12.639113+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."
}