{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/1324",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Wales) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-wales-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Offence: obstruction of enforcement officers and failure to comply with their requests",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if they—\n(a) intentionally obstruct an enforcement officer exercising powers under regulation 9 (powers of entry) or regulation 10 (power of entry, investigation, and examination etc.), or\n(b) fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a request made by an enforcement officer in the exercise of their powers under regulation 10(1)(f), (g) or (h).\n(2) A person convicted of an offence under paragraph (1)(a) or (1)(b) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.6.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/1324/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:59:10.113428+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."
}