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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eggs-marketing-standards-regulations-1995/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1544",
  "legislation_title": "The Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eggs-marketing-standards-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Offences and penalty",
  "text": "(1) Any person who\n(a) fails to comply with any requirement properly made to him by an authorised officer of the Minister or of a food authority under these Regulations, or\n(b) contravenes or fails to comply with any Community provision,\nshall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(2) Where an offence under these Regulations is committed in Scotland by a Scottish partnership and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he as well as the partnership shall be guilty of the offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1544/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:07:32.935957+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."
}