{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-1997/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2965",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Approvals, authorisations and registrations",
  "text": "(1) The Minister may, on application, approve, authorise or register any premises for the purpose of these Regulations if he is satisfied that such premises—\n(a) are properly equipped to carry out the functions to which the approval, authorisation or registration relates; and\n(b) comply with the requirements of these Regulations.\n(2) Any approval, authorisation or registration granted or made under these Regulations (including a consent given under regulation 24(7) below) shall be in writing and may be made subject to conditions.\n(3) Any such approval, authorisation or registration may be amended, suspended or revoked at any time by notice in writing served on the person to whom the approval, authorisation or registration was granted or, if that person is no longer the occupier of the premises to which the approval, authorisation or registration relates, on the occupier of those premises, if the Minister is satisfied that any provisions of these Regulations in relation to the premises or any conditions in the approval, authorisation or registration, are not being complied with.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "subst (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/2732",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst (S)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/288",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material Amendment (No. 3) (Scotland) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/2672",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/3546",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) (No.2) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/3546",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) (No.2) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 6(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 6(1)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2965/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:45.296941+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."
}