{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marketing-of-bananas-scotland-regulations-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marketing-of-bananas-scotland-regulations-2012/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2012/349",
  "legislation_title": "The Marketing of Bananas (Scotland) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marketing-of-bananas-scotland-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designations, provision of information and appointment of authorised officers",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers are designated as the competent national authority and inspection body for Scotland for the purposes of Commission Regulation 1333/2011 and Article 74 of Council Regulation 2013 in relation to bananas.\n(2) For the purposes of fulfilling the obligations on competent national authorities and inspection bodies contained in the ... marketing rules and for the enforcement of these Regulations, the Scottish Ministers may, as appropriate or where required to do so, provide information to and request information from—\n(a) the competent national authorities and inspection bodies ... in Northern Ireland, England and Wales; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The Scottish Ministers may appoint authorised officers for the purposes of the enforcement of these Regulations.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (1.1.2014) by The Single Common Market Organisation (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3235), regs. 1, 24(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Horticultural Produce and Bananas (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/169), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Horticultural Produce and Bananas (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/169), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(b) and word omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Horticultural Produce and Bananas (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/169), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(3)(c)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/349/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:41:43.573164+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."
}