---
title: "Regulation"
description: "a rule of a market or a place, as a row of the register of regulations"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/regulation
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Regulation

a rule of a market or a place, as a row of the register of regulations

[figure: Regulation is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | the market or the place and the rule |
| store | postgres |
| family | people |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `market_or_place` | `text` | yes |  |
| `rule` | `text` | yes | in a sentence |
| `makes_not_ready` | `one of a kind of action \| a play \| holding a person` | yes |  |
| `asks_consent_for` | `text` | no |  |
| `lawful_basis` | `text` | no | for holding a person |
| `kept_for` | `duration` | no |  |
| `check` | `text` | yes | the check that can fail |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Regulation directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.