{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1657",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Sustainable Use) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) A person guilty of an offence under these Regulations, other than for contravention of or failure to comply with regulation 22(1) or 23(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 22(1) or 23(1)(b) is liable on summary conviction to a fine of an amount not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(3) For the purposes of the jurisdiction of a court to try offences under these Regulations, any offence under these Regulations may be treated as having been committed in any place in the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1657/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:27:35.965660+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."
}