{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ceramic-articles-in-contact-with-food-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ceramic-articles-in-contact-with-food-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/1704",
  "legislation_title": "The Ceramic Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ceramic-articles-in-contact-with-food-wales-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) A person who contravenes a provision of regulations 3(3) or 4(1) or (3) is guilty of an offence\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable\n(a) on conviction on indictment to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both; or\n(b) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 6 months or to both.\n(3) In proceedings for an offence in respect of failure to comply with regulation 4 it is a defence to prove that the ceramic article to which the offence relates was first placed on the market in the Community before 20 May 2007.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1043",
      "affecting_title": "The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/1704/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:24.715736+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."
}