{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/erucic-acid-in-food-regulations-1977/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/erucic-acid-in-food-regulations-1977/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/691",
  "legislation_title": "The Erucic Acid in Food Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/erucic-acid-in-food-regulations-1977",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Penalties and enforcement",
  "text": "(1) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of regulation 4 of these regulations he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both, and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding five pounds for each day during which the offence continues after conviction.\n(2) Each food and drugs authority shall enforce and execute such provisions in their area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1982/1727",
      "affecting_title": "The Food (Revision of Penalties) Regulations 1982 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "sum substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1985/67",
      "affecting_title": "The Food (Revision of Penalties) Regulations 1985 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/691/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:03:29.664767+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."
}