{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-1996/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1502",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Lot Marking) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "(1) If any person contravenes regulation 3 above he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(2) Each food authority shall enforce and execute these Regulations in its area.\n(3) In this regulation “food authority” does not include—\n(a) the council of any district in a non-metropolitan county in England, except where the county functions have been transferred to that council in relation to a structural change; or\n(b) the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner and Middle Temple).\n(4) Where an offence under these Regulations is committed by a Scottish partnership and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of a partner he, as well as the partnership, shall be guilty of the offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.7.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1502/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:08.914901+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."
}