{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-and-excise-common-transit-regulations-1988/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-and-excise-common-transit-regulations-1988/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1476",
  "legislation_title": "The Customs and Excise (Common Transit) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-and-excise-common-transit-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offences, penalty and forfeiture",
  "text": "In the event of any contravention or failure to comply with—\n(a) any relevant Community provision, or\n(b) any requirement or condition imposed by or under any such provision, or\n(c) any requirement imposed under regulation 3 hereof,\nthe person responsible for the contravention or failure and the person then in charge of the goods shall each be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding £2,000 and any goods in respect of which the offence was committed shall be liable to forfeiture.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1476/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:00:20.917665+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."
}