{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-laboratory-practice-regulations-1999/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-laboratory-practice-regulations-1999/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3106",
  "legislation_title": "The Good Laboratory Practice Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/good-laboratory-practice-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The Good Laboratory Practice Monitoring Authority",
  "text": "(1) The body responsible for enforcing compliance with these Regulations shall be the Good Laboratory Practice Monitoring Authority, a body consisting of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the National Assembly for Wales, the Scottish Ministers and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland.\n(2) The functions of the Good Laboratory Practice Monitoring Authority may be performed by any one of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the National Assembly for Wales, the Scottish Ministers or the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland acting alone, or any two or more of them acting jointly.\n(3) In accordance with the preceding provisions of this regulation, in these Regulations, “the Good Laboratory Practice Monitoring Authority\" (“the GLPMA\") means any one or more of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the National Assembly for Wales, the Scottish Ministers and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, and, in the case of anything falling to be done by the GLPMA, means any one or more of them acting as mentioned in paragraph (2).\n(4) The GLPMA may appoint such persons as they think necessary for the proper discharge by them of their functions, and those persons shall be appointed upon such terms and conditions (including conditions as to remuneration, benefits, allowances and reimbursement for expenses) as the GLPMA think fit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (11.4.2018) by The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/378), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 21(f) (with art. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) inserted (11.4.2018) by The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/378), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 21(f) (with art. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) inserted (11.4.2018) by The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/378), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 21(f) (with art. 14)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3106/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:14.315502+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."
}