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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-feed-hygiene-sampling-etc-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2015/regulation-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-feed-hygiene-sampling-etc-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2015/regulation-37.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/454",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-feed-hygiene-sampling-etc-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Institution of and time limit for prosecutions",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to any enactment relating to the place where proceedings may be taken, proceedings for an offence under specified feed law may be taken in the place where the person accused resides or carries on business.\n(2) No prosecution for an offence under these Regulations or Part 2 of the Animal Feed (Composition, Marketing and Use) (England) Regulations 2015 may be begun after the expiry of -\n(a) three years from the commission of the offence; or\n(b) one year from its discovery by the prosecutor,\nwhichever is the earlier.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 37 in force at 6.4.2015, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/255. Part 2 of this instrument provides for the enforcement of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/454/regulation/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:23.622943+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."
}