{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/windsor-framework-financial-assistance-marking-of-retail-goods-regulations-2023/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/windsor-framework-financial-assistance-marking-of-retail-goods-regulations-2023/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/956",
  "legislation_title": "The Windsor Framework (Financial Assistance) (Marking of Retail Goods) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/windsor-framework-financial-assistance-marking-of-retail-goods-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Secretary of State’s power to give financial assistance",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations establish the Windsor Framework Transitional Labelling Financial Assistance Scheme (the “financial assistance scheme”).\n(2) Under the financial assistance scheme, the Secretary of State may give or arrange for the giving of financial assistance to a person in respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred in order to comply with the marking of retail goods requirements set out in Article 6(1)(a) of, and Annex IV to, the SPS Regulation.\n(3) Financial assistance may be given by way of grant, loan or guarantee or in any other form.\n(4) The Secretary of State may—\n(a) determine and publish eligibility criteria for financial assistance;\n(b) impose requirements on applicants for financial assistance, for example as to—\n(i) the form and manner of an application, and\n(ii) the information or evidence that is to be provided in support of an application;\n(c) take into account any further matters that the Secretary of State considers appropriate in deciding whether to make an offer of financial assistance, including the availability of funds;\n(d) make an offer of financial assistance subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State considers appropriate including requirements to—\n(i) enter into an agreement with the Secretary of State, and\n(ii) comply with the terms of such an agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/956/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:41:07.030784+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."
}