{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-21.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/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Time limit for prosecutions",
  "text": "No prosecution for an offence under paragraph (8) of regulation 18 may be begun after the expiry of—\n(a) three years from the commission of the offence; or\n(b) one year from its discovery by the prosecutor,\nwhichever is the earlier.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "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/21",
    "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."
}