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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-law-enforcement-governance-and-trade-regulations-2012/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/178",
  "legislation_title": "The Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forest-law-enforcement-governance-and-trade-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Obstruction of wildlife inspectors",
  "text": "Where a wildlife inspector exercises a power under these Regulations, it is an offence—\n(a) intentionally to obstruct an inspector;\n(b) without reasonable excuse, to fail to give to an inspector any information or assistance that the inspector may reasonably require;\n(c) knowingly to give false or misleading information to an inspector; or\n(d) without reasonable excuse, to fail to produce a record or document when reasonably required to do so by an inspector.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/178/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:43:47.916412+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."
}