{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultrymeat-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultrymeat-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2011/318",
  "legislation_title": "The Poultrymeat (Scotland) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultrymeat-scotland-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Powers of a sheriff on appeal",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of an appeal under regulation 14, the sheriff may require the enforcement authority to give reasons for the compliance notice, and the enforcement authority must comply with such a requirement.\n(2) The sheriff may uphold an appeal under regulation 14 only if the sheriff considers that the enforcement authority or authorised officer, in issuing the compliance notice—\n(a) erred in law;\n(b) based the issue of the compliance notice on any incorrect material fact;\n(c) acted contrary to natural justice; or\n(d) exercised their discretion in an unreasonable manner.\n(3) In considering an appeal under regulation 14, the sheriff may hear evidence by or on behalf of any party to the appeal.\n(4) On an appeal against a compliance notice, the sheriff may either cancel the compliance notice or confirm the notice with or without modification.\n(5) The sheriff may include in the decision on an appeal under regulation 14 such order as to the expenses of the appeal as the sheriff thinks proper.\n(6) The decision of the sheriff is final.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/318/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:48:11.314196+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."
}