{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-2009/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-2009/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/842",
  "legislation_title": "The Organic Products Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Obstruction etc. of authorised officers",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person—\n(a) intentionally to obstruct a person acting in the execution or enforcement of these Regulations or the specified ... provisions; or\n(b) without reasonable excuse, the proof of which lies on the person, to fail to comply with any requirement made by an authorised officer under regulation 25.\n(2) A person who, in response to a requirement made under regulation 25, makes any representation which is false or misleading in a material particular and does so recklessly or knowing it to be false or misleading in that particular is guilty of an offence.\n(3) Nothing in paragraph (1)(b) requires a person to answer any question or give any information if to do so might incriminate the person.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 26(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Organic Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/109), regs. 1, 2(8); 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/26",
    "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."
}