{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-27.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/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Protection of officers etc. acting in good faith",
  "text": "(1) An authorised officer or an officer or agent of a control body is not liable in any civil or criminal proceedings for anything done in the purported execution of these Regulations, the Council Regulation, Commission Regulation 889/2008 or Commission Regulation 1235/2008 if the court is satisfied that the act was done in good faith and there were reasonable grounds for doing it.\n(2) But this does not relieve the competent authority, a control body or a district council from liability in respect of these acts of their officers.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 27 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/27",
    "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."
}