{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-england-regulations-2017/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-england-regulations-2017/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1312",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Microbeads) (England) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-england-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A person who, in the manufacture of any rinse-off personal care product, uses microbeads as an ingredient of that product is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person who supplies, or offers to supply, any rinse-off personal care product containing microbeads is guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) or (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1) in force at 9.1.2018, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3) in force at 9.1.2018 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(2)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2) in force at 19.6.2018, see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3) in force at 19.6.2018 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1312/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:04:05.953548+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."
}