{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-laboratory-practice-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-laboratory-practice-regulations-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/654",
  "legislation_title": "The Good Laboratory Practice Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-laboratory-practice-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Requirement to be a member or a prospective member of the United Kingdom good laboratory practice compliance programme",
  "text": "A safety study shall not be conducted at any premises of a laboratory unless—\n(a) the operator of the laboratory is regarded by virtue of regulation 5 or 6 as a member or a prospective member of the United Kingdom good laboratory practice compliance programme; and\n(b) the operator’s membership or prospective membership of that programme is or is partly in respect of those premises,\nand if a safety study is conducted at any premises of a laboratory in contravention of this regulation, the operator of that laboratory shall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/654/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:49.085052+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."
}