{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-tunnel-safety-regulations-2007/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-tunnel-safety-regulations-2007/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1520",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Tunnel Safety Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-tunnel-safety-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Appointment of inspection entity",
  "text": "(1) The administrative authority shall, in relation to a road tunnel for which it is the administrative authority appoint a person to be the inspection entity.\n(2) The person appointed as the inspection entity must be—\n(a) a Chartered Engineer or headed by a Chartered Engineer;\n(b) competent to carry out its functions; and\n(c) functionally independent of the Tunnel Manager.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) For the purpose of this regulation a “chartered engineer” means a person who has been designated a Chartered Engineer by the Engineering Council UK.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 12(3) omitted (20.2.2009) by virtue of The Road Tunnel Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/64), regs. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 22.6.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1520/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:52:05.201550+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."
}