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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-other-guided-transport-systems-safety-regulations-2006/schedule-10/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-other-guided-transport-systems-safety-regulations-2006/schedule-10/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/599",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-other-guided-transport-systems-safety-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Openness",
  "text": "A certification body needs to provide public access to, or disclosure of, appropriate and timely information about its audit process and certification process. It also needs to provide information about the certification status, including the granting, extension, maintenance, renewal, suspension, reduction in scope, or withdrawal of certification, of any organisation, in order to develop confidence in the integrity and credibility of certification. Openness is a principle of access to, or disclosure of, appropriate information.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 8-11 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/837), reg. 1, Sch. para. 1 (as amended in Sch. 11 paras. 14, 16, 17 by S.I. 2019/1310, reg. 1(2)(c), Sch. 1 paras. 2, 3, 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:35:37.659804+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."
}