{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-2009/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-2009/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/842",
  "legislation_title": "The Organic Products Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Consent to movement",
  "text": "(1) An authorised officer may, at any time, give written consent to the movement of a controlled consignment.\n(2) An authorised officer must, on request, give written consent to the movement of a controlled consignment if that officer or another authorised officer has been given a written undertaking by the importer to the effect that the consignment will—\n(a) be moved to a place specified by an authorised officer; and\n(b) not be moved from that place without the written consent of an authorised officer.\n(3) Any consent given under this regulation must—\n(a) specify the controlled consignment to which it relates;\n(b) specify the place to which the controlled consignment is to be moved; and\n(c) state that the controlled consignment continues to be controlled.\n(4) Where such a consent has been given and the consignment has been moved to the place in question, the prohibition on movement under regulation 7 applies to it at the place in question as it applied at the place where the prohibition on movement under that regulation last applied.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(4) substituted (1.10.2010) by The Organic Products (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1902), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/842/regulation/8",
    "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."
}