{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-1994/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-1994/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3082",
  "legislation_title": "The Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) a person (other than an approval authority or enforcement authority) contravenes any provision of these Regulations; or\n(b) the occupier of any establishment fails to take all reasonable steps to secure the compliance by any person employed by him or any person admitted to that establishment with any provision of these Regulations,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—\n(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or\n(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both.\n(2) No prosecution for such an offence shall commence after the expiry of—\n(a) three years from the commission of the offence; or\n(b) one year from its discovery by the prosecutor,\nwhichever is the earlier.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3082/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:21:43.011400+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."
}