{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/616",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Obstruction etc. of officers",
  "text": "(1) Any person who–\n(a) intentionally obstructs any person acting in the execution of regulation 15, 16 or 19; or\n(b) without reasonable cause, fails to give to any person acting in the execution of regulation 15, 16 or 19 any assistance or information which that person may reasonably require for the performance of functions under those regulations,\nis 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 that person 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,\nis 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 that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. 20-22 applied (with modifications) (15.3.2007) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/91), regs. 1(1), 9(1)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/616/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:22:34.813431+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."
}