{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2011/295",
  "legislation_title": "Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) A person guilty of an offence under these Regulations, other than for contravention of or failure to comply with regulations 12, 18, 20(1) or 21(1)(b), is liable–\n(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence for contravention of or failure to comply with regulation 12, 18, 20(1) or 21(1)(b) is liable on summary conviction to a fine of an amount not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(3) Proceedings for any offence under these Regulations may be taken, and the offence may for the purposes of the jurisdiction of the court to try offences be treated, as having been committed, in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 25 in operation at 4.10.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/295/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:20:09.285715+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."
}