{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2009/3376",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-wales-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 or her for the performance of his or her functions under that regulation,\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) is construed as requiring any person to answer any question or give any information if to do so might incriminate him or her.",
  "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 and Saving Provision) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1581), regs. 1(3), 10(7)(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 and Saving Provision) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1581), regs. 1(3), 10(7)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving Provision) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1581), regs. 1(3), 10(7)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. 19-21 applied (31.1.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/44), regs. 1(2), 7(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/3376/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:54:42.367325+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."
}