{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/regulation-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/regulation-43.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/43",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Obstruction",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person—\n(a) intentionally obstructs a plant health inspector or an authorised person acting in the execution or enforcement of the ... Plant Health Regulation, the Official Controls Regulation or these Regulations;\n(b) without reasonable excuse, fails to give to a plant health inspector or an authorised person any assistance or information which the inspector or authorised person may reasonably require for those purposes; or\n(c) fails to produce a document or record when required to do so by an appropriate authority or a plant health inspector acting in the execution or enforcement of the ... Plant Health Regulation, the Official Controls Regulation or these Regulations.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) “authorised person” means a person authorised by an appropriate authority;\n(b) a reference to the Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation includes assimilated law adopted, or regulations made, under the Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation and any other assimilated law relating to plant health.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 43(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(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 43(1)(c) 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(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 43(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 14(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 43(2)(b) 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(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 43 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/43",
    "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."
}