{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-england-regulations-2009/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-england-regulations-2009/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3255",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-england-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Obstruction etc. of officers",
  "text": "(1) Any person who —\n(a) intentionally obstructs any person acting in the execution of regulation ... 18; or\n(b) without reasonable cause, fails to give to any person acting in the execution of regulation ... 18 any assistance or information which that person may reasonably require of him for the performance of his functions under those regulations,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) Any person who, in purported compliance with any such requirement as is mentioned in paragraph (1)(b)—\n(a) furnishes information which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; or\n(b) recklessly furnishes information which is false or misleading in a material particular,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) Nothing in paragraph (1)(b) shall be construed as requiring any person to answer any question or give any information if to do so might incriminate him.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 3(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 3(6)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3255/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:58:56.267706+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."
}