{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/controlled-drugs-drug-precursorscommunity-external-trade-regulations-2008/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/controlled-drugs-drug-precursorscommunity-external-trade-regulations-2008/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/296",
  "legislation_title": "The Controlled Drugs (Drug Precursors)(Community External Trade) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/controlled-drugs-drug-precursorscommunity-external-trade-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties: documentation, labelling, provision of information",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the obligations imposed on any persons by Articles 3 to 5, 8 and 9 of the Community Regulation shall be treated as if they are requirements imposed on them by regulations made under section 13(1) of the 1990 Act (regulations about scheduled substances) ....\n(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence contrary to section 13(5) of the 1990 Act as a result of the application of this regulation, section 13(5)(a) of the 1990 Act (penalty on summary conviction) shall have effect as if for the words “6 months” there is substituted “3 months”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(1) omitted (29.6.2026) by virtue of The Controlled Drugs (Drug Precursors) (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/607), regs. 1(1), 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 7.3.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/296/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:36:58.272744+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."
}