{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eels-england-and-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eels-england-and-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3344",
  "legislation_title": "The Eels (England and Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eels-england-and-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Duties on consignees",
  "text": "(1) A person must not accept a consignment of live eels that has been imported into England and Wales unless the consignment is accompanied by—\n(a) a certificate prepared under regulation 5; and\n(b) where live eels from another imported consignment have been added to the consignment, a copy of the certificate prepared under regulation 5 in relation to that other consignment.\n(2) The consignee must retain all certificates and (where applicable) copies of certificates for 12 months from the date of the document and allow the Agency, where those documents are retained in England, or the NRBW, where those documents are retained in Wales, to inspect those documents at any reasonable time.\n(3) Failure to comply with paragraph (1) or (2) is an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 substituted (3.1.2012) by The Eels (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2976), regs. 1(b), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(2) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 358 (with Sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3344/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:57:56.974993+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."
}