{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-and-environment-protection-act-1985/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-and-environment-protection-act-1985/schedule-2/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/48",
  "legislation_title": "Food and Environment Protection Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-and-environment-protection-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An officer shall not be liable in any civil or criminal proceedings for anything done in the purported performance of his functions under this Act if the court is satisfied that the act was done in good faith and that there were reasonable grounds for doing it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9 applied (with modifications)(E.W.S.) (17.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/887, reg. 24(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 paras. 4-9 applied (with modifications) (E.W.) (31.12.2003) by Plant Protection Products Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3241), regs. 1, 24(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 paras. 4-9 applied (with modifications) (S.) (31.12.2003) by Plant Protection Products (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/579), regs. 1(1), 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 paras. 4-9 applied (with modifications) (E.W.) (1.7.2005) by Plant Protection Products Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1435), regs. 1, 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Sch. 2 paras. 4-9 applied (with modifications) (S.) (1.7.2005) by Plant Protection Products (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/331), regs. 1(1), 24 (with Sch. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/48/schedule/2/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:06.673423+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."
}