{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-containing-meat-etc-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-containing-meat-etc-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/289",
  "legislation_title": "The Products Containing Meat etc. (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-containing-meat-etc-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Penalties and enforcement",
  "text": "(1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with regulations 4 or 5(1) shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) Any person found guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(3) Each food authority shall enforce and execute these Regulations in its area.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 13.12.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of section 5(2) of the Act, a food authority is a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (1994 c.39)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/289/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:33:11.960986+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."
}