{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-2009/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-2009/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/842",
  "legislation_title": "The Organic Products Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) The Schedule (specified ... provisions) has effect.\n(2) It is an offence for a person to contravene any of the specified ... provisions or regulation 6.\n(3) It is an offence for a person, knowing a consignment to be a controlled consignment—\n(a) to move it or cause it to be moved otherwise than in accordance with the written consent of an authorised officer; or\n(b) to remove or cause to be removed from it a label which has been affixed under regulation 7(6).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 18 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Organic Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/109), regs. 1, 2(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/842/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:13:39.814673+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."
}