{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foods-for-specific-groups-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foods-for-specific-groups-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/190",
  "legislation_title": "The Foods for Specific Groups (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foods-for-specific-groups-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 4A, a person is guilty of an offence if they fail to comply with any specified requirement.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (22.2.2020) by The Foods for Specific Groups (Medical Foods for Infants) and Addition of Vitamins, Minerals and Other Substances (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/7), reg. 1, sch. 1 para. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Food and Feed (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/372), regs. 1(2)(b), 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 20.7.2016, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/190/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:23:43.646833+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."
}