{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/re-use-of-public-sector-information-regulations-2015/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/re-use-of-public-sector-information-regulations-2015/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1415",
  "legislation_title": "The Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/re-use-of-public-sector-information-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Format of documents",
  "text": "(1) A public sector body must make a document available to an applicant under regulation 8(4)(b) or (c)—\n(a) in the format and language in which it is held on the date of the request for re-use; and\n(b) where possible and appropriate, in open format and machine-readable format together with its metadata.\n(2) The format and the metadata referred to in paragraph (1)(b) should, insofar as possible, comply with formal open standards.\n(3) Where possible and appropriate, a public sector body must make a document available for re-use by electronic means.\n(4) Nothing in these Regulations obliges a public sector body to do any of the following—\n(a) create or adapt a document or provide an extract from it in order to comply with a request for re-use where to do so would involve disproportionate effort;\n(b) continue to produce or store a certain type of document for the purposes of re-use by another person.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1415/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:34:40.502404+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."
}