{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-products-hygiene-regulations-1995/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-products-hygiene-regulations-1995/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1086",
  "legislation_title": "The Dairy Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-products-hygiene-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) a person (other than an approving authority or the Minister) contravenes any provision of these Regulations; or\n(b) the occupier of any production holding or dairy establishment fails to take all reasonable steps to secure the compliance by any person employed by him or any person admitted to that production holding or dairy establishment with any provision of these Regulations,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—\n(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or\n(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.\n(2) No prosecution for such an offence shall commence 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": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1086/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:10:45.908974+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."
}