{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/modern-slavery-act-2015-duty-to-notify-regulations-2015/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/modern-slavery-act-2015-duty-to-notify-regulations-2015/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1743",
  "legislation_title": "The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Duty to Notify) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/modern-slavery-act-2015-duty-to-notify-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Modern Slavery Act 2015;\n“human trafficking” means—\n(a) conduct which constitutes an offence under section 2 of the Act, or would constitute an offence under that section if the person responsible for the conduct were a UK national, or\n(b) conduct which would have been within paragraph (a) if section 2 had been in force when the conduct occurred;\n“notification” means a notification made under section 52(1) of the Act;\n“public authority” means a public authority to which section 52 of the Act applies;\n“slavery” means—\n(a) conduct which constitutes an offence under section 1 of the Act; or\n(b) conduct which would have constituted an offence under that section if that section had been in force when the conduct occurred;\n“victim” means a person whom a public authority has reasonable grounds to believe may be a victim of slavery or human trafficking.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.11.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1743/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:31:51.419244+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."
}