{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beef-marketing-payment-regulations-1996/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beef-marketing-payment-regulations-1996/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2005",
  "legislation_title": "The Beef (Marketing Payment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beef-marketing-payment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) It shall be an offence for a person—\n(a) without reasonable excuse, to fail to comply with the provisions of regulation 5;\n(b) intentionally to obstruct an authorised person in the exercise of a power conferred by regulation 6; or\n(c) without reasonable excuse, to fail to comply with a request made under regulation 7.\n(2) It shall be an offence for a person to furnish information recklessly or which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular—\n(a) in connection with any requirement imposed under regulation 6; or\n(b) for the purpose of obtaining for himself or another person the whole or part of any payment.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(a) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(b) or (c) or (2) of this regulation shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2005/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:42.109842+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."
}