{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restriction-on-conduct-specialist-advertising-services-order-1988/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1017",
  "legislation_title": "The Restriction on Conduct (Specialist Advertising Services) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restriction-on-conduct-specialist-advertising-services-order-1988",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Except in the circumstances described in paragraph (2) of this article, it shall be unlawful for a specialist publisher to withhold or to agree to withhold or to threaten to withhold specialist advertising services from any person who gives an order to place a price-bearing advertisement.\n(2) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) of this article are those where specialist advertising services are withheld, or would be if an agreement or threat to withhold were carried out, for a reason which could have lead a reasonable specialist publisher to withhold such services, such reason not being—\n(a) the fact that it is a price-bearing advertisement or\n(b) the fact that the specialist publisher believes or suspects that a person will withhold orders for specialist advertising services or for any magazine intended primarily for campers, climbers or walkers published by the specialist publisher if price-bearing advertisements are accepted by the specialist publisher.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1017/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:05:25.543812+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."
}