{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/free-zone-regulations-1991/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/free-zone-regulations-1991/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2727",
  "legislation_title": "The Free Zone Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/free-zone-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Offences, penalty and forfeiture",
  "text": "In the event of any contravention or failure to comply with–\n(a) any relevant Community provision; or\n(b) any requirement or condition imposed by or under any such provision; or\n(c) any undertaking given pursuant to any such provision or requirement; or\n(d) any regulation made under section 100B of the Act in its continued application by virtue of regulation 3(2) above; or\n(e) any regulation made under section 100C(4) of the Act,\nthe person responsible for the contravention or failure shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of level 3 on the standard scaletogether with a penalty of £40 for each day on which the contravention or failure continues and any goods in respect of which the offence was committed shall be liable to forfeiture.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The levels of the penalties on the standard scale currently in force are set out in S.I. 1984/447 (England and Wales), 1984/526 (Scotland) and S.R. (N.I.) 1984 No. 253 (Northern Ireland). Those penalties are increased by section 17 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53) with effect from a date to be appointed by the Secretary of State under section 102 of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2727/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:33:20.710871+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."
}