{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/regulation-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/regulation-38.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1517",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/38",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "General",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person contravenes or fails to comply with—\n(a) regulation ... 26(1);\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) paragraphs 2(1) or (2), 3(1) or (2), 6(1) or (2), 12(1), 13(1), 14(1), 15(1), 16, 21(1), 22(7), 23(2), 28(1), 29(7), 30(2) or 32(2) of Schedule 2;\n(d) a provision of the ... Plant Health Regulation specified in Part 1 of Schedule 3;\n(e) a provision of the Official Controls Regulation specified in Part 2 of Schedule 3 (insofar as it applies to plants, plant products or other objects which are subject to a plant health rule);\n(f) a provision of any other assimilated direct legislation specified in Part 3 of Schedule 3;\n(fa) a provision of the Windsor Framework (Plant Health) Regulations 2023 specified in Schedule 3A;\n(g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) But paragraph (1) does not apply to anything done under, or in accordance with—\n(a) an authorisation or permit which is granted under these Regulations or has effect under or by virtue of these Regulations;\n(b) an approval granted under regulation 13(6) or an approval referred to in regulation 54(1);\n(c) a notice which is given by a plant health inspector or an appropriate authority under these Regulations, or has effect under or by virtue of these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 38(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 14(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 38(1)(b) omitted (31.12.2020 except for specified purposes and 1.1.2021 otherwise) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b)(c), 14(2)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1631, regs. 1(2), 8(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 38(1)(d) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 14(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 38(1)(e) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 14(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 38(1)(f) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 46(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 38(1)(fa) inserted (1.10.2023) by The Windsor Framework (Enforcement etc.) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1056), regs. 1(2), 3(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 38(1)(g) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 14(2)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 38 in force at 14.1.2020, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1517/regulation/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:35:09.912166+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."
}