{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-professional-qualifications-and-major-local-audit-regulations-2014/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-professional-qualifications-and-major-local-audit-regulations-2014/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1627",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Audit (Professional Qualifications and Major Local Audit) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-professional-qualifications-and-major-local-audit-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Grant and refusal of recognition",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may, on an application made in accordance with regulation 2 and after being supplied with all such information as the Secretary of State may require under that regulation, make or refuse to make a recognition order in respect of the qualification in relation to which the application was made.\n(2) The Secretary of State may make a recognition order only if it appears to the Secretary of State, from the information supplied by the applicant and having regard to any other information in the Secretary of State's possession, that the requirements of Chapter 2 are satisfied in relation to the qualification.\n(3) Where the Secretary of State refuses an application for a recognition order, the Secretary of State must give the applicant a written notice to that effect specifying which requirements, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, are not satisfied.\n(4) A recognition order must state the date on which it takes effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1627/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:19.565456+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."
}