{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registrar-identity-verification-and-authorised-corporate-service-providers-regulations-2025/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registrar-identity-verification-and-authorised-corporate-service-providers-regulations-2025/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/50",
  "legislation_title": "The Registrar (Identity Verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registrar-identity-verification-and-authorised-corporate-service-providers-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Suspension of ACSP status",
  "text": "(1) A person is suspended as an ACSP when the registrar gives the person a notice informing them their status as an ACSP is suspended (a “notice of suspension”).\n(2) The registrar may give a notice of suspension pending a decision whether to give a notice of cessation under regulation 18(4).\n(3) A notice of suspension given in accordance with paragraph (2) must—\n(a) state the registrar’s intention to give a notice of cessation under regulation 18(4) to the person after the expiry of the period of 28 days beginning on the day the notice of suspension is given;\n(b) explain the reasons for the registrar’s intention, and\n(c) explain how the person can object to the giving by the registrar of a notice of cessation to the person (see regulation 18(5)).\n(4) The registrar may by notice in writing extend a period specified in paragraph (3)(a).\n(5) Upon the giving of a notice of suspension, the registrar must—\n(a) publish notice of the suspension of the person’s status as an ACSP, and\n(b) notify the person’s supervisory authority.\n(6) A person’s status as an ACSP ceases to be suspended when the registrar gives the person a notice informing them their suspension is revoked (a “notice of suspension revocation”) or gives them a notice of cessation under regulation 18(4).\n(7) Upon the giving of a notice of suspension revocation, the registrar must notify the person’s supervisory authority.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 18.3.2025, see reg. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/50/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:35.901425+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."
}