{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hops-certification-regulations-1979/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hops-certification-regulations-1979/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1095",
  "legislation_title": "The Hops Certification Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hops-certification-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Obstruction, etc",
  "text": "Any person who—\n(a) intentionally obstructs an inspector appointed in pursuance of regulation 5 above in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by any provision of that regulation or a person accompanying him and acting under his instructions in pursuance of the power conferred by regulation 5(3) above; or\n(b) without reasonable excuse fails to provide facilities or assistance or to produce or permit the inspection of any document which he is required to provide or produce in pursuance of any provision of that regulation,\nshall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction or, in Scotland, on conviction before a court of summary jurisdiction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(a) inserted (5.11.1991) by The Hops Certification (Amendment) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2198), regs. 1(1), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6 omitted (N.I) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1453), regs. 1(2)(a), 6(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6 substituted (5.11.1991) by The Hops Certification (Amendment) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2198), regs. 1(1), 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 1.10.1979, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1095/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:13:41.973490+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."
}