{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/re-use-of-public-sector-information-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/re-use-of-public-sector-information-regulations-2015/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Re-use of documents",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), re-use means the use by a person of a document held by a public sector body for a purpose other than the initial purpose within that public sector body's public task for which the document was produced.\n(2) Re-use shall not include—\n(a) the transfer for use of a document within a public sector body for the purpose of carrying out its own public task; or\n(b) the transfer for use of a document from one public sector body to another for the purpose of either public sector body carrying out its public task.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}