{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pig-carcase-grading-regulations-1988/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pig-carcase-grading-regulations-1988/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1180",
  "legislation_title": "The Pig Carcase (Grading) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pig-carcase-grading-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) If any person—\n(a) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with regulation 3;\n(b) intentionally obstructs an authorised officer in the exercise of the powers conferred by regulation 7(1) and (2); or\n(c) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a request under regulation 7(3) or 7(4)\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400.\n(2) If any person without reasonable excuse contravenes, or fails to comply with, any provision of regulations 5 or 6(2) he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1000.\n(3) If any person—\n(a) makes an entry which he knows to be false in a material particular in any record which is required to be kept by virtue of regulation 5(a) or (d) or 6(2)(a) or (d) or, with intent to deceive, makes use of any entry which he knows to be false; or\n(b) applies to any pig carcase, without due authority and with intent to deceive any mark prescribed by virtue of Article 4(1) of the Council Regulation or applies to any pig carcase a mark so closely resembling a mark so prescribed as to be calculated to deceive\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £2000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or both, or on conviction on indictment to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both.\n(4) It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under paragraphs (1)(a), (1)(c) or (2) above to prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.\n(5) Where an offence under this regulation which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer, of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1180/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:03:56.236946+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."
}