{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981/section-75",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981/section-75.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/22",
  "legislation_title": "Animal Health Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981",
  "path": "section/75",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "Penalties for certain summary offences",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to any offence under this Act for which no penalty is specified.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence to which this section applies is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 75 substituted (14.1.2003) by 2002 c. 42, s. 13; S.I. 2002/3044, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (W.) (28.10.2005 at 17:20) by The Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2985), regs. 1, 10(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (E.) (28.10.2005 at 12.00 p.m.) by Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2990), regs. 1, 7(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (W.) (28.10.2005 at 17:20) by The Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2984), regs. 1, 7(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (E.) (28.10.2005 at 12.00 p.m.) by Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2989), regs. 1, 10(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (W.) (9.12.2005) by The Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3384), regs. 1, 10(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (E.) (with modifications) (9.12.2005) by Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures) (No.2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3394), regs. 1(2), 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (W.) (9.12.2005) by The Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3385), regs. 1, 7(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (with modifications) (W.) (1.2.2006) by The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Control of Vaccination) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/180), regs. 1(2), 36(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "S. 75 modified (E.) (23.2.2006) by Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Control of Vaccination) (England) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/183), regs. 1(2), 37(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (with modifications) (S.) (23.2.2006) by Foot and Mouth Disease (Slaughter and Vaccination) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/45), regs. 1(1), 41(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (with modifications) (W.) (6.7.2006) by The Avian Influenza (Vaccination) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1761), regs. 1(2), 18(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (E.) (13.11.2006) by The Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures) (England) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2701), regs. 1(2), 20(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C13",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (W.) (with modifications) (13.11.2006) by Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2803), regs. 1(1), 20(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C14",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (with modifications) (W.) (14.11.2006) by The Avian Influenza (Vaccination) (Wales) (No.2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2932), regs. 1(2), 21(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C15",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (with modifications) (E.) (14.11.2006) by The Avian Influenza (Vaccination) (England) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2703), regs. 1(2), 21(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C16",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (with modifications) (E.) (6.4.2008) by Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (England) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/465), art. 1(c)reg. 21(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C17",
      "text": "S. 75 applied (with modifications) (W.) (3.6.2008) by The Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (Wales) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1275), regs. 1, 21(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/22/section/75",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:14.497777+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."
}