{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-unoccupied-property-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-unoccupied-property-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2008/2499",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (Wales) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-unoccupied-property-wales-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 is to 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 26 weeks beginning with that day.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 substituted (1.4.2022) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/118), regs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.11.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/2499/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:36:43.232739+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."
}