{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-carriage-of-perishable-foodstuffs-act-1976/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-carriage-of-perishable-foodstuffs-act-1976/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/58",
  "legislation_title": "International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-carriage-of-perishable-foodstuffs-act-1976",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Affixing, etc. of designated marks.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who, without reasonable excuse—\n(a) affixes or causes or permits to be affixed a designated mark, or\n(b) permits a designated mark to remain affixed,\nto transport equipment at a time when there is not in force a certificate of compliance for the equipment, shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction liable to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) Any person who—\n(a) with intent to deceive applies to transport equipment a mark so nearly resembling a designated mark as to be calculated to deceive, or\n(b) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the direction of an examiner to remove to remove a mark so calculated to deceive,\nshall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction liable to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46, (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G and (N.I.) S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), arts. 5, 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/58/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:27:52.326300+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."
}