{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-act-2013/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-act-2013/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2013/2",
  "legislation_title": "Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-act-2013",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) An operator of a food business establishment commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, the operator—\n(a) fails to display a valid food hygiene rating sticker in the location and manner prescribed;\n(b) displays an invalid food hygiene rating sticker;\n(c) fails to retain a valid food hygiene rating sticker;\n(d) parts with possession of a food hygiene rating sticker to any person other than an authorised officer of a food authority;\n(2) An operator of a food business establishment is also guilty of an offence if, without reasonable excuse—\n(a) a person's request to be informed verbally of the establishment's food hygiene rating is denied; or\n(b) a person making such a request is given false or misleading information about the establishment's food hygiene rating.\n(3) A food hygiene rating sticker remains the property of the food authority.\n(4) A person commits an offence if that person—\n(a) intentionally alters, defaces or otherwise tampers with a food hygiene rating sticker, and\n(b) does so otherwise than for the purpose of removing it from display, or destroying it, in accordance with section 7(6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 in force at 28.11.2013 by S.I. 2013/2617, art. 3(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/2/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:32.425552+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."
}