{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-preference-scheme-developing-countries-trading-scheme-regulations-2023/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-preference-scheme-developing-countries-trading-scheme-regulations-2023/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/561",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Preference Scheme (Developing Countries Trading Scheme) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-preference-scheme-developing-countries-trading-scheme-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "DCTS qualification rules",
  "text": "(1) A country is a “qualifying DCTS country” if, on the declaration acceptance date—\n(a) it is a DCTS country, and\n(b) it is not suspended from the DCTS by a suspension notice under regulation 16(5)(a)(i) or 17(1)(a)(i).\n(2) Goods are “qualifying DCTS goods” if on the declaration acceptance date, those goods—\n(a) are specified in regulation 11 as being covered by a DCTS framework,\n(b) are not goods to which a suspension of the DCTS rate applies, pursuant to a notice published under—\n(i) regulation 16(5)(a)(ii) (customs conditions),\n(ii) regulation 17(1)(a)(ii) (further conditions),\n(iii) regulation 18(1) (goods graduation), or\n(iv) regulation 19 (trade preference safeguard measure), and\n(c) the DCTS rate is not suspended by regulation 20(1) (additional import duty).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 19.6.2023, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/561/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:45:05.234329+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."
}