{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-feeding-stuffs-and-surveillance-regulations-1999/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/882",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Feeding Stuffs and Surveillance) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-feeding-stuffs-and-surveillance-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) Any person who, without reasonable excuse–\n(a) intentionally or recklessly defaces, obliterates or removes any mark applied to any bovine animal or carcase under regulation 4(1)(c) above;\n(b) intentionally or recklessly contravenes regulation 4(2) above; or\n(c) contravenes regulation 5(1) above,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(a) or (b) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(c) above 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/1999/882/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:37.183592+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."
}