{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-disclosure-of-information-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2012/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-disclosure-of-information-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2012/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1848",
  "legislation_title": "The Customs Disclosure of Information and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-disclosure-of-information-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Penalties for offence of disclosure of restricted information",
  "text": "(1) A person who commits an offence under regulation 3 is 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;\n(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or both.\n(2) In England and Wales a prosecution for an offence under regulation 3 may be instituted only by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.\n(3) In Northern Ireland a prosecution for an offence under regulation 3 may be instituted only—\n(a) by the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, or\n(b) with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (27.3.2014) by The Public Bodies (Merger of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/834), art. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 36"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "The “statutory maximum” is defined in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30) as amended by paragraph 17 of Schedule 4 to the Criminal Procedure (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.40). It is currently £5,000."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1848/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:25:22.518278+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."
}