{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/controlled-drugs-drug-precursorscommunity-external-trade-regulations-2008/regulation-9",
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  "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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties: general",
  "text": "(1) Any reference in regulation 6, 7 or 8 to a person who fails to comply with any of the requirements of the Community Regulation includes a person, who in purported compliance with the Community Regulation—\n(a) furnishes information which he knows to be false in a material particular; or\n(b) recklessly furnishes information which is false in a material particular.\n(2) The penalties specified for the purposes of this paragraph are—\n(a) on summary conviction, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}