{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-transboundary-movement-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-transboundary-movement-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/1912",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Transboundary Movement) (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-transboundary-movement-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person—\n(a) to contravene, or to fail to comply with, any specified EU provision;\n(b) to obstruct an inspector in the exercise of a power conferred by regulation 6 or regulation 7;\n(c) without reasonable excuse to fail to comply with any requirement imposed under regulation 6;\n(d) knowingly or recklessly to make a statement or furnish any information that is false or misleading in a material particular where the statement is made or the information is furnished in purported compliance with—\n(i) any requirement imposed by the specified EU provisions; or\n(ii) a request of an inspector made for a purpose in connection with the administration or enforcement of these Regulations;\n(e) intentionally to make a false entry in any record required to be kept under a specified EU provision.\n(2) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under regulation 8(1)(a) to prove that he or she took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence by himself or herself or by a person under his or her control.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 3-6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/1912/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:05:45.987860+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."
}