{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/231",
  "legislation_title": "The Horse Passports (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) A person guilty of an offence of failing to comply with regulation 3(3) (issue of a document purporting to be a passport), regulation 17(2)(c) or 17(4) (completion of the passport following administration of a veterinary medicinal product) or regulation 19 (slaughter for human consumption) shall be liable —\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or both; or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both.\n(2) A person guilty of any other offence under these Regulations shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/231/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:07:09.785115+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."
}