{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-agency-regulations-2005/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-agency-regulations-2005/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/408",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Protection Agency Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-agency-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Cessation of disqualification",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person who is disqualified under regulation 3(1)(c) or (g)(i) may, after the expiry of two years beginning on the date of the dismissal or removal, apply in writing to the Secretary of State to remove the disqualification, and the Secretary of State may direct that the disqualification shall cease.\n(2) Where the Secretary of State refuses an application to remove a disqualification, no further application may be made by that person until the expiry of the period of two years beginning with the date of the application and this paragraph shall apply to any subsequent application.\n(3) Where a person is disqualified under regulation 3(1)(d), the disqualification shall cease on the expiry of the period of two years beginning on the date upon which that person’s tenure of office was terminated or such longer period as was specified when the tenure of office was terminated but, on application being made to the Secretary of State by that person, the Secretary of State may reduce the period of disqualification.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/408/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:09:15.568720+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."
}