{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inspire-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inspire-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/440",
  "legislation_title": "The INSPIRE (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inspire-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Charges for public access",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided by paragraph (2), a Scottish public authority or a third party must not charge the public for a discovery service or a view service which that authority or third party operates in relation to a spatial data set or spatial data service for which that authority or third party is responsible.\n(2) A Scottish public authority or a third party may charge the public for a view service where that charge secures the maintenance of spatial data sets and spatial data services, especially in cases involving very large volumes of frequently updated data.\n(3) A Scottish public authority or a third party may charge the public a reasonable sum for a service described in regulation 8(2)(c), (d) or (e) which that authority or third party operates in relation to a spatial data set or spatial data service for which that authority or third party is responsible.\n(4) Where a Scottish public authority or a third party charges the public for a view service or a service described in regulation 8(2)(c) or (e), that authority or third party must ensure that e-commerce services are available in relation to that service.\n(5) Spatial data made available through a view service may be in a form preventing their re-use for commercial purposes.\n(6) In this regulation, “view service” means a service described in regulation 8(2)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/440/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:58:18.122679+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."
}