{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-unoccupied-property-england-regulations-2008/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-unoccupied-property-england-regulations-2008/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/386",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-unoccupied-property-england-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Continuous occupation",
  "text": "A hereditament which has been unoccupied and becomes occupied on any day shall be treated as having been continuously unoccupied for the purposes of regulation 4(a) and (b) if it becomes unoccupied again on the expiration of a period of less than six weeks beginning with that day.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2024/323",
      "affecting_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/386",
      "affecting_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/386/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T03:31:10.047880+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."
}