Regulation 8 RecordsI1

The appropriate F1authority may, by notice given to any person engaged, whether as principal or agent, in the production, grading, processing, packing or sale of any hops or hop products (not being hops or hop products exempt from certification) require that person to keep such records of any of those activities as may be specified in the notice: and that person shall comply with the requirement.

Every person so required to keep records shall retain them for three years from the end of the calendar year to which they relate, and produce them on demand to any authorised officer of the appropriate F2authority who presents his credentials.

A person who without reasonable excuse contravenes any of the foregoing provisions of this regulation shall 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 F3level 4 on the standard scale.