{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-protection-products-regulations-2020/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-protection-products-regulations-2020/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls (Plant Protection Products) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-protection-products-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Expenses",
  "text": "(1) Any expenses incurred by a competent authority in carrying out official controls or enforcement activities under these Regulations, or the Official Controls Regulations may be recovered from the relevant operator and such expenses must be paid on written demand.\n(2) Any sum owing under this regulation and unpaid may be recovered—\n(a) as a civil debt;\n(b) under an order of the court, on such terms as the court may order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 22.6.2020, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/552/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:54.723490+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."
}