{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007/section-17",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/18",
  "legislation_title": "Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Principles and procedures",
  "text": "(1) The Board must prepare and publish a statement of—\n(a) the principles to which it will have regard, and\n(b) the procedures which it will adopt,\nin exercising its functions under sections 12(1) and 14(1).\n(2) The Board may at any time revise the statement under subsection (1) and, if it decides to do so, must publish the statement as revised.\n(3) In preparing or revising the statement under subsection (1) the Board must consult—\n(a) the Scottish Ministers,\n(b) the Welsh Ministers,\n(c) the Department of Finance and Personnel for Northern Ireland, and\n(d) such other persons as it thinks fit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 in force at 1.4.2008 by S.I. 2008/839, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/18/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:39.032593+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."
}