{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-instruments-regulations-1947/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-instruments-regulations-1947/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1948/1",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Instruments Regulations, 1947",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-instruments-regulations-1947",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exemption for local instruments and instruments otherwise regularly published",
  "text": "The following statutory instruments shall, unless the Reference Committee in any particular case otherwise direct under these Regulations, be exempt from the requirements of subsection (1) of Section 2 of the Principal Act with respect to the printing and sale of copies, that is to say:—\n(a) any local instrument, and\n(b) any general instrument certified by the responsible authority to be of a class of documents which is or will be otherwise regularly printed as a series and made available to persons affected thereby:\nProvided that the responsible authority may, on sending to the King's printer of Acts of Parliament any statutory instrument certified by that authority as local, request him to comply with the requirements aforesaid.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.1.1948, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1948/1/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T02:57:00.907971+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."
}