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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-medical-devices-northern-ireland-protocol-regulations-2021/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348224740",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Devices (Northern Ireland Protocol) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-medical-devices-northern-ireland-protocol-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Offence of breaching certain provisions",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person contravenes a prohibition or fails to comply with a requirement in a provision of the regulations listed in Table 1 or the Articles listed in Table 2 in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.\n(3) In respect of an offence under this regulation, a magistrates’ court in Northern Ireland may hear and determine any complaint made before the earlier of—\n(a) the end of the period of 1 year beginning with the day on which evidence which the prosecutor thinks is sufficient to justify a prosecution comes to the knowledge of the prosecutor, and\n(b) the end of the period of 3 years beginning with the day on which the offence was committed.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(a)—\n(a) a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which such evidence came to the prosecutor’s knowledge is conclusive evidence of that fact, and\n(b) a certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed is to be treated as so signed until the contrary is proved.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348224740/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:46:58.636532+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."
}