{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curd-cheese-restriction-on-placing-on-the-market-england-regulations-2006/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curd-cheese-restriction-on-placing-on-the-market-england-regulations-2006/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2787",
  "legislation_title": "The Curd Cheese (Restriction on Placing on the Market) (England) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curd-cheese-restriction-on-placing-on-the-market-england-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) Any person who contravenes regulation 3 or knowingly contravenes the requirements of a notice given under paragraph (2)(a) of regulation 5 shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) Any person guilty of an offence under this regulation shall be liable —\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both; or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.\n(3) No prosecution for an offence consisting of a contravention of regulation 3 or of knowingly contravening the requirements of a notice given under paragraph (2)(a) of regulation 5 shall be begun after the expiry of —\n(a) three years from the commission of the offence; or\n(b) one year from its discovery by the prosecutor,\nwhichever is the earlier.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2787/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:18:20.464756+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."
}