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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-substances-that-deplete-the-ozone-layer-regulations-1996/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/506",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Controls on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-substances-that-deplete-the-ozone-layer-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) Any person who uses, or causes or permits another person to use, a hydrochlorofluorocarbon in contravention of Article 5(1) to (4) commits an offence.\n(2) Any person who supplies, or causes or permits another person to supply equipment in contravention of Article 5(5) commits an offence.\n(3) Any person who contravenes, or causes or permits another person to contravene, regulation 5 commits an offence.\n(4) Any person who knowingly supplies information that is false in a material particular for the purpose of obtaining a licence issued by the Commission under Article 6(1) commits an offence.\n(5) Any person who fails to discharge a duty to which he is subject by virtue of regulation 6 commits an offence.\n(6) Any person who intentionally obstructs a customs officer in the exercise of his powers under regulation 7 commits an offence.\n(7) Any person who fails to comply with regulation 8 or causes or permits another person to fail to comply with that regulation commits an offence.\n(8) Any person who—\n(a) without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any requirement imposed under regulation 9(2), or\n(b) makes a statement which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, where the statement is made in purported compliance with a requirement to furnish information imposed under regulation 9(2)(i),\ncommits an offence.\n(9) Any person who contravenes, or causes or permits another person to contravene, regulation 9(8) commits an offence.\n(10) Where a health and safety inspector, under sections 20 and 21 of the 1974 Act, exercises his powers for the purposes of enforcing Articles 5(1) to (4) and regulation 6, in so far as that regulation relates to Article 15(1) and (2), any person who—\n(a) fails to comply with an improvement notice served under section 21 of the 1974 Act including any such notice as modified on appeal,\n(b) without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any requirement imposed under section 20 of the 1974 Act,\n(c) prevents any other person from appearing before or from answering any question to which a health and safety inspector, by virtue of section 20 of the 1974 Act, may require an answer, or\n(d) intentionally obstructs a health and safety inspector in the exercise or performance of his powers or duties under section 20 of the 1974 Act,\ncommits an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/506/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:50:54.620028+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."
}