{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/1145",
  "legislation_title": "The Poultry Meat (Water Content) Regulations 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Inspection of imported poultry carcases",
  "text": "(1) Where an importer during business hours makes a request for sound reasons to an enforcement authority that the authority perform outside its business hours such inspections as may be necessary to fulfil its duties in relation to imported poultry carcases under these regulations, the authority shall provide such services.\n(2) Where an authority provides the services specified in paragraph (1) of this regulation it may make such reasonable charges for providing the services as it may from time to time determine, but such charges shall not include any costs associated with the storing, transporting or analysis of any sample.\n(3) Any charge made by an authority by virtue of paragraph (2) of this regulation shall be payable by the importer.\n(4) Any charge due to an authority by virtue of this regulation shall be recoverable by it summarily as a civil debt.\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation “business hours” means in relation to the days Monday to Friday the continuous period of not less than 10 hours each day, and in relation to Saturday the continuous period of not less than 6 hours, which each enforcement authority specifies to be its business hours.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1145/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:34:50.805812+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."
}