{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2020/272",
  "legislation_title": "The Organic Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "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 EU 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 24.\n(2) A person who, in response to a requirement made under regulation 24, 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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 25 in operation at 31.12.2020, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/272/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:41:45.607814+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."
}